Nicaraguans who were unable to travel to Honduras to complete the second dose of the anticovid vaccine on the stipulated date – which ended on December 4 – will have a new opportunity to do so, since the authorities of that country authorized the 8 and December 9 for nationals to go to be immunized at the border posts of La Fraternidad and El Guasaule.
The news was confirmed to LA RENSA by a delegate from the Choluteca Health Region, who explained that this decision was due to the fact that during the final stage of the day it was not possible to meet the total goal to be immunized, despite the fact that in the last On two days – December 3 and 4 – long lines were observed at the different border posts. The source warned that if they do not attend on December 7 and 8, they will now be left without completing their scheme.
“In recent days, progress was made with the people who arrived (at the posts enabled at the borders), but it was not worth continuing with the day if there were not enough people to vaccinate, so it was decided to enable these two days (for those who could not arrive in the previous days) ”, declared the Honduran health source.
According to the calendar shared by the municipality of San Marcos de Colón, the places set up for said day will be: at the República de Honduras School, located on the La Fraternidad border, and at the Polyclinic, located in El Triunfo and at the Care Units Primary in Health (UAPS), in El Guasaule.
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In the event that people manage to reach the posts located in San Marcos de Colón, the health source clarified that they may also be vaccinated in those places.
Vaccination data
Honduras began the intense vaccination day on October 21 and ended it on December 4, which means that said country would have applied more than 200 thousand doses to Nicaraguans during that period, since in the first phase the Ministry of Health of Honduras reported that more than 100,000 nationals had received their first dose of Modernas and Pfizer vaccines.
Dr. Luis Roberto Gómez, head of the Department of Networks of Services of the Sanitary Region of Choluteca, recently told the Voice of America that said day was a success and that they did not expect a massive overflow of Nicaraguans in search of their immunizer.
“We definitely had those doses for them, because we have a lot of contact with Nicaraguans, especially with people from the border area (…) We are in the highest availability, rather if they gave us more, we would apply more vaccines,” said the official .
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