COVID-19 | Doses of bivalent vaccine against COVID-19 will arrive in Peru in January 2023 | Peru | PERU

The owner of the Ministry of Health (Minsa)Rosa Gutiérrez, announced this Sunday that the country will receive the first batches of the bivalent vaccine against COVID-19 in January 2023.

The announcement was made during her visit to the National Maternal and Perinatal Institute (INMP) to view and welcome the children born on 25 December.

Although he did not specify the day when the batches of this dose against the coronavirus will arrive, the minister said that it is of great importance to have it to continue immunizing Peruvians.

He also asked the population to complete the vaccination doses against this virus so as not to have serious health complications, as he indicated that only 25% of the country has the complete doses.

“Our appeal is to them, to patients at risk, vulnerable, diabetic, suffering from hypertension, who have cancer, people on multiple medications and whose immunity is already low”Gutiérrez said.

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S bivalent vaccinesalso called “updated booster dose”, protect the body from two types of antigens. The first has a component of the strain discovered in Wuhan (China) and the second against the omicron variant, as explained by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

In countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, they are applying it to their citizens to counter the contagion.

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