Last Thursday, the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Daniel Rivera, affirmed that the country does not have more space to receive the anticovid vaccines that were contracted, since the warehouses where the biological ones are kept are full.
During the last tours that Diario Libre has made through the vaccination posts, they seem completely empty after the lifting of restrictions announced by President Luis Abinader on February 16.
As of March 3, according to the VacúnateRD portal, 7,135,113 people have already received the first dose of their anticovid vaccine; 5,862,255 in the second dose and 2,227,157 in the booster dose, for a total of 15,285,668 applied doses.
According to the information shared by Minister Rivera, in the most recent Public Health meeting with the press, in relation to Pfizer vaccines, the The goal as of March 30 is to give 588,310 vaccines to citizens who have their second dose pending. With these vaccines, 70% of the total population would be completed.
By May 30, the goal is to vaccinate 3,658,897 Dominicans with the booster dose. This figure would represent 50% of the target population.
Adding the citizens who are still pending second and third doseduring the next two months, the Government expects to inoculate a total of 4,247,207 people.
Which provinces require more effort?
The greatest demand for doses, with 898,048 vaccines, is registered in Santo Domingowhere 131,620 inoculations are needed to complete the goal in the second dose and 766,428 in third dose.
He is followed by National District with 100,340 to complete the second dose and 499,236 people pending a booster dose, for a total of 599,576 vaccines.
Third is Santiago, with a demand for 458,654 vaccines; 70,336 in the second dose and 388,318 in the third.
Others provinces with high dose demand to complete the country goal are San Cristobalwhere the goal is to reach 229,252 inoculations (32,945 in the second dose and 196,307 in reinforcement); The Altagracia with 167,724 pending vaccinations; The Vegawhose statistics show the lack of 166,185 doses; San Pedro de Macoris with 136,076 pending records and province Duartewhere 15,730 inoculations are needed to complete 70% in second dose Pfizer and 124,282 reinforcements, for a total of 140,012 injections in this demarcation alone.
The provinces with better population density, they require less effort.
The border area, made up of the provinces Independence, Pedernales and Elias Piña together, they require 55,846 vaccines to complete both goals.
provinces What Peravia (with 81,788 vaccines pending), Monsignor Nouel (with 75,895 doses missing) and Maria Trinidad Sanchezwhere 58,422 doses are needed to reach the joint goal of 70% in second and 50% in third doseindividually require more vaccines than the sum of the three provinces borders mentioned above.
The data provided by Public Health also records the need to apply 89,114 Pfizer vaccines in Azua; about 32,417 in Bahoruco and 65,186 in Barahona.
On Hato Mayor 40,114 inoculations are needed to complete the goal, with a distribution of 6,688 missing in the second dose and 33,426 in the third.
In the case of Montecristito reach the target values, 6,290 injections are required in the second dose and 41,064 to reach the 50% booster dose with Pfizer.
house to house bet
Currently, the Government is betting on the “house-to-house” strategy in order to motivate people to complete their vaccination schedule against Covid-19 without having to go to a hospital. vaccination center. Similarly, vaccination days are being held every Saturday to encourage parents to take their children aged 5 to 11 years to be inoculated.
“This effort is going to be more work, it is house to house, knocking on their door. People allow themselves to be vaccinated, they like to be visited”, assured Minister Rivera, to which he admitted the ministry’s duty is to locate people who have not yet been inoculated and offer them the vaccine.
On average, with this methodology, 135 people are inoculated per day.
