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Carla Vizzotti announced that a second reinforcement of the coronavirus vaccine will be given

Carla VizzottiMinister of Health of the Nation, announced this Wednesday that a second booster of the vaccine against coronaviruswhich in practice will represent for most of those who receive it a “fourth dose” since the immunization campaign began.

In addition, the ministers of the area of ​​all the country’s jurisdictions agreed to spend next Monday to a “comprehensive Covid-19 surveillance strategy”. Among the main novelties, the diagnosis of people with risk factors will be prioritized and the situation reports will no longer be published every day and will start to spread on a weekly basis Sundays.

“We are going to start applying a second vaccine booster against Covid-19,” the official wrote on that social network. She explained that, as in previous stages of the immunization campaign, some groups will be prioritized.

The first to receive the second reinforcement will be the health personnel, people 50 years of age or older, those over 12 years of age with risk conditions, security forces and teachers.

“If you are part of these groups, you have already received your initial scheme and 4 months have passed since your first reinforcement, you will be able to give yourself the second as soon as your jurisdiction defines it,” the minister pointed out.


And he concluded: “Vaccines continue to be the best tool to reduce hospitalizations and mortality. Let’s continue to take care of ourselves!”

The announcement about the fourth dose -which has Denmark and Israel as pioneer countries- comes when less than half of people who completed the primary schedule received the first booster.

According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, 97,506,637 doses of the Covid vaccine have already been applied in Argentina. There are 37,109,027 people with a complete scheme, 80% of the population. Of these, 3,027,428 received an additional dose and 16,700,431 people – almost 36% of the inhabitants – already applied a first booster (or booster).

Carla Vizzotti, Minister of Health, announced that they will begin to give a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine.


Strictly speaking, for a group of people this anouncement will mean a fifth dose in your schematic.

Those over 50 years of age who have the Sinopharm vaccine (with a lower percentage of efficacy) and those who are immunosuppressed (due to autoimmune disease, transplants or cancer treatments) receive an additional dose and only then is the schedule considered complete. They began receiving the first booster – their fourth dose – in early March.

New strategy: all changes

In a new meeting of the Federal Health Council, in which the area ministers from all the provinces and the Nation participated, it was agreed to start a new “Comprehensive Covid-19 Surveillance Strategy and other acute respiratory infections.

From the national government they explained that the cases in decline and the advanced situation of the vaccination campaign are favorable factors to introduce this stage “of Transition”, as they called it. It will be implemented from next Monday.

“This is a process that we have been working on for a long time with the provinces, which are already organized and advanced on this path,” Vizzotti said at the virtual meeting.

They will prioritize the diagnosis of coronavirus in certain groups.  Photo Luciano Thieberger

They will prioritize the diagnosis of coronavirus in certain groups. Photo Luciano Thieberger


One of the novelties is that Covid diagnosis will be prioritized in people over 50 years of age and with risk conditions; Populations that usually visit areas with a higher risk of transmission (prisons, health centers, caregivers of vulnerable people, people with serious illness (inpatients) or deceased and unusual cases; and on the occasion of investigation and control of outbreaks.

Diagnosis will also be a priority for those with a history of travel in the previous 14 days to a region that has circulation of a variant of interest or concern that does not circulate in Argentina.

In the case of close contacts of a positive case no quarantine indicated. Instead, it is recommended that they avoid contact with vulnerable people and take extreme prevention measures.

On the other hand, information about the coronavirus will start to be provided weekly. The monitor with the epidemiological information will be updated on Sundays, while the complete situation room will be renewed on Tuesdays.

The health ministers also agreed to reinforce prevention measures, such as the use of a mask indoors and, for those who test positive, avoid going to public or educational places from the onset of symptoms and up to five days after diagnosis.

The current situation of Covid in Argentina

According to last report of the Ministry of Health of the Nation, since the beginning of the pandemic they confirmed 9,057,923 cases of coronavirus in Argentina, so the country is 13th among those with the highest number of positives. The deceased reach 128,285.

This Wednesday’s report registered 1,720 cases and 17 deaths from Covid in the last 24 hours. Some 39,739 patients are experiencing the disease, of which 412 are in intensive care. The occupation of intensive units is around 38%, both at the national level and the specific indicator of the AMBA.

In the last days, from the City warned of a possible new wave of the illness. Fernán Quirós, Buenos Aires Minister of Health, explained that there may be a rise in the number of Covid cases in the coming weeks, due to the change of season and the arrival of colder temperatures.

“That causes us to enter a period of circulation of respiratory viruses,” explained the City official. In any case, he ruled out that there is a high number of seriously ill patients, as in previous waves, with high percentages of occupancy of intensive care beds.

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