After knowing the announcement by the Government of the digital certificate of vaccination against him covid-19, the mayor of Bogotá Claudia Lopez He said Wednesday that what the city needs are “more vaccines and less paperwork.”
(Context: Digital vaccination certificate: learn how to obtain it and its benefits)
“Today Bogotá has been without a second dose of Moderna for more than a week, so they draw up a decree saying that the dose can be extended; That can say the decree but, the covid-19 says something else. The covid does not conform to the decree, the covid does not care about decrees, or passports, or certificates. The only thing that stops the coronavirus is the vaccine, “said the president.
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López added at a press conference that “Bogotá has been without second doses of Modern, few second doses of Sinovac, without reservation of Pfizer to complement vaccination schedules and waiting for more doses to avoid a fourth peak caused by the delta variant ”.
Of course we are at risk of having a fourth peak as reported by different epidemiologists and experts on this subject …
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“Of course we are at risk of having a fourth peak as reported by different epidemiologists and experts on this subject, but the only thing that will take care of a fourth peak and that affects our health and job creation is the Vaccine issue ”, stated the mayor of Bogotá.
According to the Salud Data platform of the Bogotá Health Secretariat, the total vaccination figure is 6,700,717 people vaccinated in Bogotá, of which 2,725,796 are with the complete scheme and there are 36,146 people reserved for second doses.
(Be sure to read: WHO classifies as ‘of interest’ a variant identified in Colombia)
Subsequently, Victor Muñoz, Director of the Presidency of the Republic Administrative Department (According to), responded to the president through his Twitter account with the following message: “How good it is to criticize and how difficult to manage. Bogota has been assigned 6,787,550 doses, it has second doses of Sinovac that it has not applied, vaccines from Pfizer and the process is slow, what does it need? It has not reported the vaccines it claims to have applied to the platform. “
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