Friday 11.11.2022
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Last update – 16:23
Next Monday the provincial Ministry of Health will start a new phase of vaccination against covid with the application of the 5th dose or also called “third booster”, aimed at certain sectors of the population defined by age, risk factors or covering strategic roles.
Sebastián Torres, Undersecretary for Health Promotion of the province, explained in detail what these population groups are: “Firstly, those over the age of 50; secondly, people over the age of 18 with risk; third, all those over the age of 12. immunocompromised; fourth, all health personnel; fifth, strategic personnel such as the security forces, education workers – such as teachers – and sixth, all workers and residents of institutions for the elderly.
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Likewise, the doctor indicated that the vaccine can only be applied when at least four months or 120 days have passed since the last dose.
On the importance of obtaining this fifth vaccine, he remarked: “It is necessary to keep our defenses high, so that the antibodies that defend us from Covid 19 do not fall out of the curve and we can have our defenses prepared for any contact we may have with the covid “.
Where to go?
In the city of Santa Fe, after the closure of mass vaccinations, the placement of the anti-covid vaccine is carried out in:
- Vecchio Iturraspe Hospital (3551 Pellegrini Boulevard), from Monday to Friday, from 7:00 to 17:30.
- Cemafe (Mendoza 2419), Monday to Friday, 7am to 6.30pm.
- ATE Health Center (Rivadavia 3325), from Monday to Friday, from 8:00 to 16:00.
- And in all health centers.
In the next website You can find the list with vaccination locations in different parts of the province.
Follow inoculation with 3rd and 4th dose
Days ago Torres had indicated that, for the general population, the placement of the third and fourth dose continues. In this sense, it has been estimated that 70% of the population has the 3rd dose placed and 30% the 4th. “The numbers show that there has been a postponement of these reinforcements. We believe it is, on the one hand, because the population believes that the pandemic is over and that Covid 19 has ceased to exist. In this concept there is a lack of perception of risk which makes people not feel it necessary to complete the calendar “.
In this sense, he clarified that “in reality the situation is that we have managed to control the pandemic thanks to vaccination. It is not that the virus has gone away or completed a cycle; what has happened is that the good levels of coverage that reached through world level allowed to break the third wave at the beginning of the year and the fourth in May-June 2022 “.
It is also recalled that the application of doses for children is still in force.
