(CNN)Police are looking for a antheral successful Canada they accidental punched a caregiver successful the look aggregate times, knocking her to the crushed aft she administered a Covid-19 vaccine to his woman without his permission.
On Monday, astir 9:15 a.m., a antheral walked into a Brunet Pharmacy successful Sherbrooke, a metropolis successful confederate Quebec, and accused a caregiver successful her 40s, who constabulary person not named, of vaccinating his wife, Sherbrooke Police spokesperson Martin Carrier told CNN.
"Right astatine the beginning, the fishy was precise angry, precise aggressive, helium asked the caregiver wherefore she vaccinated his woman without approval, without his consent," Carrier said. "And helium punched her close successful the look aggregate times truthful the caregiver didn't person the clip to support oregon explicate herself ... and she fell to the crushed and the fishy near moving retired of the drugstore."
There are nary laws successful Canada that accidental individuals request their spouses' support to get vaccinated, and it is unclear if his woman had fixed consent.
The caregiver was taken to a adjacent infirmary by ambulance wherever she was treated for the "multiple injuries to the face" helium said.
As a effect of the incident, the pharmacy told CNN partner, CBC, that they suspended vaccinations. CNN reached retired to the pharmacy but they refused to remark connected whether oregon not vaccinations were being administered Thursday.
Brunet Pharmacy's genitor company, The Jean Coutu Group Inc., besides declined to remark but told CNN they "fully condemn this enactment which is unacceptable towards the pharmacy teams who person been providing indispensable services since the opening of the pandemic."
Canada has vaccinated 69.8% of its population, surpassing the US by 15.6%, according to information from Our World successful Data, seen successful CNN's vaccine tracker.
Although astir Canadians person welcomed nationalist wellness measures and the state has 1 of the highest vaccination rates worldwide, lawsuit counts and hospitalizations are connected the rise, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, particularly among younger, unvaccinated Canadians.
Police bash not person a sanction oregon photograph of the fishy oregon information footage of the incident, Carrier said. They bash nevertheless person a statement of the antheral and are hoping with the public's help, they'll beryllium capable to place him and complaint him with assault.
The fishy is described as, 30 to 45-year-old-man, 6-feet tall, mean physique with darker skin, abbreviated brownish hair, heavy eyebrows, 2 tiny receptor piercings connected each receptor and a tattoo connected his manus that appeared to beryllium successful the signifier of a cross, Carrier said.