Chile reports zero deaths from COVID for the first time since the start of the pandemic | WORLD

The Chilean Ministry of Health released daily figures on the COVID-19 pandemic and reported that it did not register deaths from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, since the daily reports began.

Regarding the number of infections, the Ministry of Health detailed that they were reported 297 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Until now the total number of deaths remains at 37,253 in the neighboring southern country.

As of September 14, the total number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country it reaches 1′644,832, of these 3,160 are active; that is, they can infect others.

Vaccination of children under 12 years of age

On the other hand, Chile advances with the vaccination of children under 12 years of age, inoculating more than 3,000 children on the first day of the immunization campaign against COVID to children between 6 and 11 years of age with chronic diseases and in the coming weeks they will continue this cycle in schools, informed on Tuesday the Minister of Health of Chile, Enrique Paris.

The vaccination of these minors – authorized on September 6 – began on Monday in health centers with children who have “comorbidities”, such as cancer or diabetes, but will be extended at the end of the month to healthy children, who will receive their doses in schools .

Paris indicated that on the first day, more than 3,000 children received the first dose of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, out of a total of 52,300 children under 18 years inoculated on the same day.

Third dose

Enrique Paris defended the third dose against covid-19 that the country carries out just one day after a study, which had the participation of WHO scientists, indicated that it is not something “appropriate.”

“It can be seen as a difference in the right to health that some countries already place a booster dose, but we believe that we have to protect our elderly and chronically ill”, said Paris in a virtual press conference with foreign correspondents .

As the minister recalled, a study carried out in Chile with more than 570 volunteers showed that with the Sinovac, Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines there is a “very significant” drop in antibodies after 6 months after the second dose is administered.

However, an international investigation, published Monday in the journal “The Lancet”, with the collaboration of scientists from the WHO, suggests that booster doses are not “appropriate” at this time.

(With information from EFE)

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