One year after the first arrival in the country of coronavirus vaccines, Argentina in the last hours exceeded 100 million doses received, which allowed it to reach 70 percent of the total population with a complete immunization scheme, while 83 percent have at least one dose.
In this way, the important advance of the Strategic Vaccination Plan against SARS-CoV-2 that the national government is promoting throughout the territory allowed the country to reach 70% of the total population with a complete scheme, as reported this Friday by the Ministry of Health.
With a shipment of 739,440 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrived this Thursday at the Ezeiza International Airport, Argentina reached 100,439,835 doses of vaccine against Covid-19.
Thus, just one year after the arrival of the first shipment that allowed the Strategic Vaccination Plan to begin, the country surpassed the milestone of 100 million doses received.
The first shipment with 300,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine arrived in the country on December 24.
On her Twitter account, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, published: “12 months. 100 million doses received. 83% with first dose. 70% with complete schedule. We are capable of doing great things. Do not hesitate, get vaccinated “.
12 months.
100 million doses received.
83% with first dose.
70% with complete scheme.We are capable of great things. Do not hesitate, get vaccinated ???? ♥ ️???????? pic.twitter.com/N9RZsIaTMj
– Carla Vizzotti (@carlavizzotti) December 24, 2021
“A year ago, Argentines renewed their hopes with the arrival of the first vaccines against Covid-19 that started one of the largest vaccination campaigns in our history. Thanks to health policies, today we are moving forward “, published, for his part, the Chief of Staff, Juan Manzur, in that same social network.
On the other hand, and given the increase in cases in some regions of the country, the national government today extended until December 31, 2022 the health emergency issued since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, in March 2020.
This Thursday the spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, warned that “we are in a peak of contagions” of coronavirus, for which he urged the population to complete the vaccination schedules, and affirmed that the Ministry of Health “monitors day by day” the epidemiological situation of the country.
In the usual press conference that he gives every Thursday at the Government House, Cerruti said that “vaccination is a collective event, not an individual one. The vaccines are available, so we ask the population to complete their vaccination schedules.” , and asked “extreme care” before the next holidays and vacations.
Tucumán, Río Negro, Neuquén, Córdoba and the City of Buenos Aires They are currently in a situation of high epidemiological risk -which implies a high risk of contagion of coronavirus-, while at the national level reported cases grew 86% in the last week.
Meanwhile, and through a press release, the health portfolio highlighted that “Thanks to the important reception flow and the effort coordinated with the 24 jurisdictions of the country, one year after the start of the vaccination campaign, 83% of the total population started their scheme and 70% completed it.”
“With regard to the population over 18 years of age, the figure rises to 93.3% with a started scheme and 82.8% with a complete scheme,” highlights the report from the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, 79.7% of adolescents between 12 and 17 years old started their scheme and 58.9% completed it, while 61.8% of girls and boys between 3 and 11 years old applied already one dose and 36.9% received two.
“This wide availability of doses allowed to advance in the largest vaccination campaign in the history of the country, reducing, at the moment, hospitalizations for serious cases of Covid-19, mortality and reducing the tension in the health system,” it was stated he claimed.
In this sense, the health portfolio stressed that “having available doses to reach the entire target population with a complete scheme allowed the country not only to apply 2,300,773 additional doses and 2,131,452 booster doses, but also to advance in the donation of doses for countries that have suffered unequal access to vaccines, understanding that the pandemic cannot be overcome until all countries agree to vaccination. ”
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