Beats The Nurse Who Gave His Wife A COVID-19 Vaccine Until She Is Injured, This Man Is Being Hunted By The Police

Illustration of a COVID-19 vaccination. (Wikimedia Commons/Claude TRUONG-NGOC)

JAKARTA - Canadian security forces are hunting for a man who they believe punched a nurse in the face several times, knocking her to the ground, after he administered the COVID-19 vaccine to his wife without permission.

Last Monday 20 September, at around 9:15 a.m. local time, a man walked into the Brunet Pharmacy in Sherbrooke, a city in southern Quebec, and accused a nurse in her 40s, who was not named by police, of vaccinating his wife, a spokesman said. Sherbrooke Police Officer Martin Carrier told CNN.

"Right at the start, the suspect was very angry, very aggressive, he asked the nurse why he was vaccinating his wife without her consent, without her permission," Carrier said.

"He punched him in the right face multiple times so the nurse didn't have time to defend or explain himself, fell to the ground and the suspect ran out of the pharmacy," Carrier said.

There is no law in Canada that says individuals need their partner's permission to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and it's not clear if the wife has given consent.

The nurse was rushed to a nearby hospital by ambulance, where she had to be treated for multiple facial injuries," Carrier said.

As a result of the incident, the pharmacy told CNN partner CBC it was suspending its COVID-19 vaccination program. CNN contacted the pharmacy, but they declined to comment on whether or not the vaccination was administered on Thursday.

Brunet Pharmacy's parent company, The Jean Cutu Group Inc., also declined to comment, but told CNN it "fully condemns this unacceptable action against the pharmaceutical team that has provided essential services since the start of the pandemic."

To note, Canada has vaccinated about 69.8 percent of its population, surpassing the United States by 15.6 percent, according to data from Our World in Data, seen on CNN's vaccine tracker.

Although most Canadians welcome the public health measures and the country has one of the highest vaccination rates worldwide, the number of cases and hospitalizations continues to rise, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, especially among younger, 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 with the public's help, they will be able to identify him and charge him with assault.

"The suspect is described as a male aged 30 to 45, 6 feet tall, medium build with darker skin, short brown hair, thick eyebrows, two small piercings in each ear and a tattoo on his hand that looks like a cross," Carrier said.