The Ministry of Health reported that 13 departments did not carry out a vaccination session.
According to the latest report from vaccination against covid-19, Colombia registered only 14,931 vaccines applied against covid-19 on December 25. Of those injections, 5,674 corresponded to second doses and 1,779 to single doses from the pharmaceutical company Janssen.
This digit it is even lower than that of December 24, when 67,635 doses were applied anticovid. And although on holidays it is common for the figures for the application of anticovid doses to decrease, the records of Christmas Day are only comparable to the first stages of the National Vaccination Plan, when the country was barely accommodating the logistics of the immunization strategy largest in its history.
In fact, the one on December 25 It is the lowest number of vaccines injected since last February 24, when 2,104 doses applied were reported. However, there were other similar days, such as March 4, the date on which 14,995 anticovid doses were injected.
In its daily report, the Ministry of Health explained that the territorial entities of Caldas, Putumayo, Cartagena, Quindío, San Andrés, Guaviare, Guainía, Santa Marta, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, La Guajira, Vaupés, Meta and Vichada They did not carry out their usual anticovid vaccination day.
Likewise, the drastic decrease in anticovid vaccination occurred a few days after the arrival of the omicron variant in Colombia, the first cases of which were reported on December 21. To that extent, the Ministry of Health has indicated that it is essential to maintain the rate of anticovid vaccination to face the new variants of the coronavirus that have arrived in Colombia in recent months.
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“There are second-dose people who have probably been a little more lazy to complete the scheme, but I think it’s the Christmas effect. We are calling for their second dose to be applied, especially the young people who were the last to be vaccinated, ”said Health Minister Fernando Ruiz in a recent interview with EL COLOMBIANO.
Although the initial goals of the Government in terms of vaccination aimed to reach 35 million people vaccinated with complete schedules before the end of 2021, As of December 25, this figure reached 27,858,133 doses. In this regard, Ruiz pointed out that the government’s priorities have changed and that now it is seeking to promote the application of booster anticovid doses.
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