Social network users report forced vaccination in KBR

Almost 29,000 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been vaccinated against coronavirus, the republic's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has reported. Instagram users have reported that vaccination is not always voluntary; some have to get vaccinated under threat of dismissal.

Overall, 28,953 KBR residents have been vaccinated, of whom 22,126 people have gone through two vaccination phases, the KBR's MPH wrote on its Instagram page.

In their comments, social network users have regretted that they were forced to get vaccinated under the threat of being fired.

"They forced me to do it! [...] Which of doctors would refuse the vaccination, if [they threatened] to fire him/her from job!" the user nashnalchik has written.

"Tell me, do we have voluntary-compulsory vaccination? Why are people forced to get vaccinated? And why do they put forward the conditions that they won't let people to work without vaccination? Please define whether it is voluntary or compulsory," the user let__777 has noted.

"When you ask them this question, they say that they are not forcing anyone, but in fact they are," the user larisa_aaaaa has answered the question.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 10, 2021 at 11:11 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.