AMMAN — The National
Center for Security and Crisis Management (NCSCM) recently said it has spotted
some illegal practices by volunteer vaccinators at COVID-19
vaccination sites.
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Ahmad Naimat, the
director of media response at the NCSCM, told Jordan News over the phone
that they have found a few cases of people making arrangements with vaccinators
to dispose of vaccine shots and mark people as being vaccinated.
“Only a very limited
number of cases have taken place, and those involved were captured and
transferred to the national judicial system,” Naimat said.
According to Naimat, such
individual cases have not affected the vaccination process given that the
number of people who have received the vaccine in Jordan now stands at more
than 3 million.
Naimat added that
these “simple Individual mistakes” are likely to happen in such a large
administrative process that includes millions of citizens.
He noted that some
“intentional and unintentional” errors regarding COVID-19 vaccinations can
occur across the world, and that Jordan is no exception.
He said that the
number of COVID-19 cases during the third wave has been much lower than the
second wave, indicating that Jordan’s vaccination campaign has been effective.
Naimat also noted that
a
lack of awareness may be the reason some people have chosen to avoid being
vaccinated.
“If citizens who care
about their health and that of their families are aware of the benefits of the
vaccine, they will definitely take it,” he said.
“Some people were
afraid of the vaccine or were (too) lazy to take it.
They have their own
reasons after all,” Naimat said.
However, the Minister
of Health Firas Al-Hawari, recently spoke to local outlet The New Arab and denied that there have been some people who have obtained vaccination
certificates without getting vaccinated, stressing that some mistakes and
violations may take place in any action associated with an emergency situation such
as COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health
was not available for comment despite attempts by Jordan News.
Yayha Khreisat, head
of the “No to Obligatory Vaccination” campaign and president of Arab Council
Association for Prosthetic Eyes, said in a phone interview with Jordan News that
Defense Order No.
32 indirectly forces citizens to take the COVID-19 vaccine by
making it a prerequisite to getting back to workplaces and schools, as well as
to receiving medical treatment.
“This is considered as
coercion and it violates Jordan’s constitution in terms of restricting
Jordanians’ freedoms and rights to movement, education, health, and medical
care” Khriesat added.
Khreisat said that foreigners
arriving in Jordan are allowed to have a PCR test that is valid up to 10 days
compared to 3-day PCR validity for nationals.
“A PCR test should not
be conducted twice a week given that from a scientific perspective, COVID-19
symptoms only manifest after a minimum of 10 days of getting infected,”
Khreisat said.
Khreisat said that
people have concerns regarding the vaccine since its side effects are still
unknown by companies, the Ministry of Health, or the World Health Organization.
“We are not against
the vaccine or protecting people, but this way has created a state of
discrimination between people who took the vaccination and those who did not,”
the campaign’s head added.
A teacher at a private
school in Amman, who preferred to remain anonymous, said in a phone interview
with Jordan News that she was not intending to get vaccinated; however,
she took the vaccine just to be able to get back to work.
“I delayed receiving
the vaccine as much as I could.
But if I did not take it, I would have to
undergo a PCR test every Sunday and Thursday, so I had no choice but to get
vaccinated,” she said.
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