(CNN) – Police are looking for a man in Canada who they say punched a nurse in the face multiple times, causing her to fall to the ground after giving his wife a COVID-19 vaccine without her permission.
At around 9:15 a.m. on Monday, a man walked into a Brunet pharmacy in Sherbrooke, a city in southern Quebec, and accused a nurse in her 40s, whom the police did not name, of having vaccinated his wife, Sherbrooke police spokesperson Martin Carrier. told CNN.
“From the start the suspect was very angry, very aggressive, he asked the nurse why he had vaccinated his wife without her consent, without her consent,” Carrier said. “And he punched her in the face several times so the nurse didn’t have time to defend herself or explain herself… and she fell to the ground and the suspect ran out of the pharmacy. “
There is no law in Canada that says people need their spouse’s permission to be vaccinated, and it is not clear whether his wife had consented.
The nurse was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital where she was treated for “multiple facial injuries,” he said.
Following the incident, the pharmacy told CNN’s partner, Radio-Canada, which suspended the administration of vaccines. CNN contacted the pharmacy, but declined to say whether the vaccines were given on Thursday.
Brunet Pharmacy’s parent company, Le Groupe Jean Coutu Inc., also declined to comment, but told CNN it “totally condemns this act which is unacceptable to pharmacy teams who have been providing essential services from the start. of the pandemic “.
Canada has vaccinated 69.8% of its population, overtaking the United States by 15.6%, according to data from Our World in Data, seen in the CNN vaccine tracker.
Aunque la mayoría de los Canadienses han acogido con satisfacción las medidas de salud pública y el país tiene una de las tasas de vacunación más altas del mundo, el recuento de casos y las hospitalizaciones aumenta, según the Agenzia de Salud Pública de Canadá The the youngest unvaccinated Canadians.
Police do not have the suspect’s name or photo or security footage from the incident, Carrier said. However, they have a description of the man and hope that with the help of the public they can identify him and charge him with assault.
The suspect is described as a 30-45 year old male, 1.8 meters tall, of medium build with dark skin, short brown hair, thick eyebrows, two small piercings in each ear and a tattoo on his hand which appeared to be be shaped like a cross, Carrier said.
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