The Ministry of Health determined that the Sinovac vaccine will only be applied to children from 5 to 11 years old

At the moment the Sinovac vaccine is the only one that will be applied to children between 5 and 11 years of age, as reported by the Ministry of Health, since, although since the beginning of the month, the use of the Pfizer dose for minors was authorized from the Invima, there are no plans to acquire new batches from that pharmaceutical company.

“There is not going to be in the short term and Pfizer vaccine for children is not being contemplated, which they ask us everywhere. A different biological presentation was established in doses for children and at this moment we are not in the process of purchasing this biological and, therefore, the only vaccine for children is the Sinovac vaccine “, indicated the director of Promotion and Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gerson Bermont, after a consultation that was made on the subject in the television newscast Noticias Caracol.

In that media they recalled that the deliveries of batches of vaccines by Pfizer have already been completed and that those that are arriving in the country are donations. For this reason, they will only be available to pregnant women who are waiting to complete their schedules with the doses of that pharmaceutical company.

“We have some problems because there were some territories that used the vaccines that we had sent for pregnant women, they spent the first doses of the population that did not correspond and we are going to comply with them, but, please, they put us in trouble. They have already announced a donation of 2,400,000 for the last week of the year, that is, we will have a Pfizer vaccine by the beginning of the year “Bermont noted on that newscast.

In this way, the Ministry of Health detailed that the application of the vaccines from the different pharmaceutical houses would be carried out as follows:

Sinovac: for children from 3 to 11 years old.

Pfizer: for pregnant women and those who require second doses.

Janssen: for the population over 18 years of age and the migrant population.

AstraZeneca: It will be applied to those over 18 years of age, to migrants and to people who require reinforcements.

Modern: It will be available for the population between 12 and 17 years of age and to complete regimens with second doses.

Meanwhile, the Semana magazine took up the data from the Ministry of Health regarding the progress of the immunization of people in the country, where 73.6 percent of the population has at least the first dose, while 52.3 percent of the country’s inhabitants have the complete scheme.

As for minors, 39 percent of children from 3 to 11 years of age have first doses, while 5.76 percent have the complete scheme.

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection reported, this Saturday, December 18, 2,016 new cases of covid-19 in Colombia. In the last 24 hours, 34,032 tests of which 19.950 son PCR and 14,082 of antigens.

The report also notes that 54 Colombians they passed away due to illness in the past 24 hours. In this way, the country reaches a total of 129.399 deaths from the virus since the start of the pandemic.

By putting all the figures together, Colombia reached 5,105,285 infected, of which 12,167 are active cases and 4.945.520 correspond to positive cases that have already managed to overcome the disease.

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