America: 1,275 million doses administered with an increase in infections

America, Nov 12 (EFE) .- America, which has already completed 1,275,704,560 million doses applied against covid-19, focuses the eyes of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) by showing how despite the efforts to vaccination infections are rising again.
“Coronavirus infections are increasing in some Latin American countries and the vaccination rate is not what we wanted,” PAHO Director Carissa Etienne said at a virtual press conference last Wednesday.
He affirmed that although people are tired of the pandemic, which has exceeded 5 million deaths in the world, and Latin America accumulates a third of them – around 2.3 million deaths and more than 92 million infections -, this “is not over yet and it is not the time to relax measures.”
On the continent, according to agency data, 553 million complete vaccination schedules are already registered, while 673 million correspond to the first dose administered and 518 million to the second dose.
THIRD DOSE, THE OBSTACLE FOR POOR COUNTRIES
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the third dose of the covid vaccine being inoculated in several countries is making access to the first two doses more difficult in poor countries.
The body revealed that six times more booster doses are given each day than starting doses.
“This is a scandal that must stop now. The vast majority of countries are ready to vaccinate, but they need the doses,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference.
PAHO joined this call by pointing out that the region of the Americas faces an imminent crisis regarding routine vaccination, so constant attention must be paid to maintain immunization and essential health programs.
“The region faces an impending crisis around routine vaccination and continued attention must be paid as a priority to maintaining and strengthening immunization and other essential health programs,” Etienne said.
The first country to authorize the third dose of the vaccine was the Dominican Republic, followed by Chile in those over 55 years of age, and in Uruguay those who received Sinovac, Colombia in those over 70 years and the United States of Pfizer and Moderna, for immunosuppressed people.
BRAZILIAN JUSTICE ALLOWS DISMISSAL OF UNVACCINATED
Judge Luis Barroso, of the Supreme Court of Brazil, suspended this Friday all the effects of a regulation issued by the Government of Jair Bolsonaro that prevented companies from firing employees who have not been vaccinated against covid-19.
According to these regulations, requiring vaccination is a “discriminatory practice” equivalent to others related to race, age, sex or deficiencies, and could not be grounds for dismissal, even more so when the Government has not made immunization mandatory.
However, according to the precautionary decision of Judge Barroso, an unvaccinated person “can be a threat to the health of other workers,” represent “risks to the work environment and compromise the health of people who interact with companies.”
“Individual rights must yield to the interest of the community as a whole, in the sense of protecting the right to life and health,” he stressed.
PUBLISH VACCINATION PLAN FOR CHILDREN IN VENEZUELA
The NGO Doctors of Venezuela (MUV) asked the authorities of the Ministries of Health and Education to make public the vaccination plan against covid-19 for primary and secondary school students who began to be immunized a few days ago.
“Misters of Health and Education (Carlos Alvarado and Yelitze Santaella), we demand that in a public presentation they inform the country about the vaccination plans for the school and high school population now that classes have started. Parents must be informed,” MUV indicated on his Twitter account.
In another message, he asked the Government to reconsider its decision to apply the Cuban Soberana 02 or Abdala vaccines to those over two years of age who began to be immunized with these drugs on Monday.

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