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Between Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24, 2 million 4 thousand pediatric doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive to start immunization against COVID-19 in girls and boys from 5 to 11 years old, announced the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health PromotionHugo López-Gatell Ramírez.
“The response to the (vaccination) registry has been very positive and this gives us the facility to be able to locally schedule the application of the vaccine,” he reported.
In a morning press conference with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the official maintained that there will be sufficient doses to continue the strategy with children.
“There will be vaccines for everyone. (…) This is the first contract and we have multiple mechanisms to have vaccines”, he referred.
So far, mothers, fathers and guardians have registered 3 million 15 thousand 979 children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the portal mivacuna.salud.gob.mx.
Simultaneously, he said, the application of doses will continue in adults who have not yet completed their primary or booster schedule.
Increase in cases in the country is slower due to vaccination; hospitalization for COVID-19 does not register increases: SSa
The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, announced the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country during the last nine weeks.
“The growth of the epidemic is slower than it was in the fourth wave. This is encouraging because it suggests that population immunity, the protection that each and every one of us has, either because we suffered from COVID or because we were vaccinated, works and slows down the spread,” he noted.
In El Pulso de la Salud, he explained that COVID is characterized by being a generally mild disease in people with symptoms similar to the common cold.
“There is a progressive increase in the frequency of estimated cases. (…) There is encouraging news regarding how this phase of the omicron epidemic is behaving, mainly the BA.4 and BA.5 variants predominate, ”he indicated.
Hospitalization, he said, has practically not increased. Ventilator bed occupancy is 1 percent and general bed occupancy is 4 percent in COVID units because the omicron variant is less likely to cause lung damage.
Deaths remain at five daily nationwide.
“It is a notoriously lower figure compared to what we got to live during the second wave in particular,” said the undersecretary.
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