The proportion of people in Slovakia who don't wish to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has increased from 30.9 percent to 36 percent over the course of the last three months, according to the latest 'How Are You, Slovakia?' survey performed by the Sociology and Social Communication Institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Sesame agency. Meanwhile, 51.7 percent of the respondents claimed that they either have already been inoculated or plan to get vaccinated in the future. This figure has increased by 3 percent as compared to May. In addition, more than 60 percent of respondents said they were against mandatory vaccination against the disease.
"In previous surveys, we recorded a relatively large group of people who were undecided as to whether they would themselves be vaccinated. This latest survey, however, showed that the group of undecided people has been shrinking and those who've made up their mind are more often inclining towards rejecting vaccination. Meanwhile, opinions concerning mandatory vaccination and other, more relaxed anti-pandemic measures have divided the public into two groups. While vaccinated individuals often support both, unvaccinated people are often very notably against either," said Robert Klobucký from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) Institute of Sociology. At the same time, 29.8 percent of those who are against vaccination claimed that they would change their opinion if there was sufficient evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and properly registered. More than 14 percent of the same group maintained that they would get vaccinated if the shot was administered by their general practitioner, while 12.5 percent stated that they would change their mind if there was another wave of the pandemic.
