Uruguay Judge suspends Covid vaccination for children

Judge Alejandro Recarey determined this Thursday at noon the "immediate" suspension of the anticovid vaccination of children "under 13 years of age" under the "warning of contempt" otherwise. The measure occurs after two hearings between yesterday and today from the amparo action filed on Friday by lawyer Maximiliano Dentone.

The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) will appeal the ruling. Recarey activated this resolution until "all the contracts for the purchase of these vaccines are published in full (...)"; "the composition of the substances to be inoculated" is communicated and "a text is prepared - to be supplied to those responsible for minors - that fully and clearly informs" several points.

This text should include "the composition of the injectable substances (all the elements that they contain, of whatever nature they may be); "the benefits that the vaccine entails", "the risks that it has. with details of its nature, probability, magnitude and, if possible, time of occurrence", as well as "clarify that the substance has only emergency authorization and not definitive, explaining in simple terms what difference these two types of authorizations make . in specific order to the private weighting of the aforementioned risks", that "the adverse effects already detected are detailed, in their entirety. periodically updating this information", and that "the controls to which the state is obliged by art.