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LONDON, England, February 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Britain’s vaccine minister has suggested a very personal way (that some might consider invasive) of convincing people to take a COVID-19 vaccine: sending people from local governments to knock on their doors.
According to the Times, Nadhim Zahawi, 53, the U.K.’s minister for COVID-19 vaccine deployment, stated last week that he wanted local governments, called “councils” in the U.K., to send people door to door, first to make sure that all elderly people know they can be vaccinated, and then to convince those who refuse to take it to change their minds. The minister hopes to offer the COVID vaccine to everyone aged 70 and older by February 15.
The specter of a knock-at-the-door has led to questions about privacy and government coercion. In an interview with BBC Radio 4, Zahawi confirmed that the names of everyone inoculated against the virus are recorded by the national immunization system. He would not confirm that the names of people who have refused to take it are being recorded, but he did not rule it out,
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