The coordinator of the Epidemiological Surveillance of Chronic, Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Aron Bueso, said that around 900,000 vaccines against COVID-19 will expire on December 30.
These vaccines will be lost, as the population does not want to be vaccinated, many have started their immunization program, but have not completed it, and now this drug will be lost.
Bueso explained that the inoculants are still on hold, due to the low influx of people trying to complete their immunization schedule, “people are not going to get vaccinated, these are vaccines for all the adults who haven’t been vaccinated,” he said.
He warned that cases of the disease are on the rise and 1,002 infections were reported in week 48, which is a 93% increase on previous weeks.
The latest anti-covid vaccination bulletin from Sesal, dated December 5, indicates that 15,910,218 inoculants have been applied in Honduras to date.
Of this figure, 6.3 million correspond to the first dose of the regimen and 5.6 million to the second. 3.2 million third doses or first reinforcement and 617,000 vaccines were applied as a second reinforcement.
Data confirms that only 20% of the Honduran population eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine completed their schedule with two booster doses.
Hospital Escuela (HE) clinical management coordinator, Franklin Gómez, reported that at least 120 employees of the care center are infected with COVID-19.
He explained that “in the last two weeks the infection has been reported in 120 employees, this given the high positivity that there is among the patients who arrive at the treatment center”.
He called on the population to complete the entire anticovid vaccine scheme to prevent the virus from leading them to hospitalization. Doctors have called on the population to resume biosecurity measures in the face of the wave of cases that is re-recording nationwide.
“There are five patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, whose underlying pathologies place them in critical condition. We are facing an unprecedented epidemic of 100 tests in progress, 80 are positive for COVID-19,” Gómez lamented.
For his part, Dr. Omar Videa warned that “an aggressive wave of COVID-19 has unleashed in Honduras, cases are increasing by 95 percent”.
Then the specialist points out that, in a week, the behavior is exponential. According to Videa data, in the first seven days of December it has already exceeded the cases of the entire month of November.
He also recalled that the virus does not respect ages, “we have hospitalizations from 18 to 102, these images do not look like Ómicron,” he complained.
