Anti-COVID-19 vaccination pilot plan started in companies; spaces were adapted for their workers | Ecuador | News

In two vaccination sites there were inconveniences: delay in the arrival of the vaccines and the drugs were finished before immunizing those summoned.

The vaccination pilot plan against the coronavirus for companies started this Monday, July 5, among others, with the construction and commercial sector.

One of the construction company is Kubiec. Its pilot plan was implemented in the south of Quito.

Henry Yandún, president of Positive Constructors and who is part of Kubiec, He said that about 280 workers were going to be vaccinated and that soon it will be their families.

He explained that the Government delivers the doses of vaccines and the businessmen assume at their cost the doctors, nurses, data entry operators, the site and a kit that includes, for example, the syringe, gloves, the mask. The cost of the kit is around $ 0,60.

Yandún maintains that, according to the latest Central Bank report, the sector with the greatest decrease in the economy in the first quarter it is that of construction.

For the employer, the construction activity cannot be done by teleworking.

Since they require at least 1,000 people To open private vaccination centers, the idea is to bring together companies as there will be some that do not complete that number, he added.

In the future it is expected to enable several points to vaccinate some 2,500 construction workers located in the capital already registered.

Another pilot started in Corporación Favorite, which manages commercial, real estate and industrial areas.

In the north, in one of the premises of that business chain, chairs and desks were placed in the parking lots.

Ruben Salazar, corporate manager of Favorite Corporation, estimated that throughout this week will be immunized 6,000 of its collaborators, This figure could be expanded depending on the availability of vaccines.

The goal to be vaccinated it’s about 100,000 people for several weeks, which will also depend on the registration of the workers’ close relatives up to the first degree of consanguinity.

At the moment, first doses will be placed only to employees.

Ivonne León, a 29-year-old worker at Corporación Favorita, said she was vaccinated with Pfizer. For her, getting immunized will help to continue developing her activities and reactivate the country.

Francisco Macías, 31, another employee of Corporación Favorita said he had waited 25 minutes for his vaccination.

Companies start internal anti-coronavirus vaccination process

Paulina Proaño, zonal coordinator of the Ministry of Public Health in the Metropolitan District of Quito, mentioned -in public statements- that they are being organized through the Ecuadorian Business Committee (CEE) so that the same sites of the companies with their vaccination brigades go the medicines and immunize the largest number of people over 16 years of age.

Vaccination in the midst of discomfort

The vaccination process continued this Monday and until Sunday July 11 will apply to age ranges from 55 to 49 years, one day each age group, which represents a change in relation to previous days.

Until last week, vaccination was two days per age range. For example, Friday July 2 and Saturday July 3 were for 56-year-olds; Friday for those who had an identity card with an even number and Saturday, odd.

In the south of Quito, in the municipal educational unit Bicentenario there were people who attended to receive the second dose. They said they were happy and that they will continue to maintain biosecurity measures.

In the center of the city, in the ECU911, located in Itchimbía park, A tent was placed so that the citizens could wait avoiding the intense sun.

There were people who assured that, in that place, the process was organized. Others got up early at least two hours in advance since care begins at 08:00 to receive the first doses. Some said they were concerned about the reaction the drug could generate.

Vaccination schedule between July 5 and July 11

However, there were disturbances in the Bicentennial convention center, in the north of the city, due to the lack of vaccines for second doses, which caused a long wait.

According Gabriela Meza, District Health Director, there were some difficulties in the distribution of the vaccine that arrived in Ecuador over the weekend, which later – he affirmed – were overcome.

However, to users who came in the afternoon, As had been scheduled on the website of the National Electoral Council (CNE), at the vaccination point in downtown Quito, at the Casa Somos San Marcos, they were told that there were no more vaccines and that They will return tomorrow.

Proaño added that in the 24 vaccination points in Quito the doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca y Sinovac.

The official said that there is the stock suitable vaccines for first and second doses, according to the calendars, and also stock security, which is a percentage of extra vaccines to what is normally sent.

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