Vaccine Mandate in Ecuador Province Defeated by Legal Action

A grassroots organization defeated a government-backed COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Ecuador's Loja Province on Aug 5.

On July 6, the Emergency Operations Committee, which is a crisis response branch of Ecuador's state-level government, released a decree mandating COVID-19 vaccines for province residents over 16 years of age by Aug. 9.

Nick Vasey, the founder of Human Rights Ecuador, spoke to The Epoch Times about the steps his organization took before the mandate went into effect.

Human Rights Ecuador claims on its website that the proposed vaccine mandate is also contrary to the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, which takes precedence over local regulations under Article 425 of Ecuador's constitution.

On Aug. 5, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled against extending the state of emergency in the provinces of Guayaquil and El Oro, which was originally requested by President Guillermo Lasso's government.

Guayaquil is Ecuador's most populous city with over 5 million residents, in a nation of 17.9 million people.

Ecuador has administered at least 15,516,237 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to date.

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