Ecuador Imposes Vaccine Mandate Amid Rising Hospitalization Rate
- Health Ministry orders inoculation for people aged 5 and up
- President Lasso wants to avoid another crippling lockdown
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Ecuador’s Health Ministry has ordered the inoculation of people 5 years of age and older against Covid-19 in a bid to ward off the threat of a further spike of infections, forging ahead of the rest of the region.
In a statement, the ministry cited Austria, Germany and Greece as other countries planning to make the vaccinations obligatory and said that the country’s intensive care unit occupation rate has increased after several recent local holidays.