COVID-19: Minsa will issue next week measures to promote vaccination | PERU

The Ministry of Health will issue new measures next week to promote the vaccination against COVID-19, announced the head of the sector, Hernando Cevallos.

“The Ministry of Health is preparing some measures to encourage vaccination. And we are going to announce them next week, ”said the minister on TV Peru.

Likewise, although he avoided giving details about the measures, the RPP minister announced that one of them will be related to the requirement of having double vaccination for workers who provide care to the public.

“The measures are under review and they have to do with incentives to vaccinate the population. We are talking with different private sectors to help us. And we are going to move on to the requirement of two doses of vaccination in some sectors that have to do with customer service, “he said in RPP.

“As they are measures that will have an impact, we are planning to announce them on Wednesday next week,” he added.

Cevallos indicated that it seeks to have national regulations to avoid particular restrictions such as the one announced in Ica, where the Regional Government has approved the restriction of entry to certain public places for those who are not vaccinated against COVID-19.

“This has to be articulated at the national level, it cannot be that in each region different measures are issued. This can confuse the public and affect the national strategy. They must be national measures, ”Cevallos stressed.

Missing completion of second dose

The Minister of Health indicated that there are more than 3 million people who have not completed the vaccination with the second dose and of that number, more than one million are 60-year-olds. The official showed his concern about this situation.

“The amount that has not received the second dose is more than 3 million people, and of those who are over 60 years old (in the same scenario), we are talking a little more than a million”he declared.

According to Cevallos, the worrying thing is that people who die and have greater complications from COVID-19 are precisely those who have not completed their vaccination.

“90% of those who die in the ICU have two characteristics, or they are not properly vaccinated or are people over 60 years of age“, said.

In that sense, Cevallos indicated that they will be carried out for longer days, vaccinating every day. “We have understood that we must take the Ministry out on the streets so that the population over 50 years of age and those with some comorbidity do not remain unvaccinated.”added.

In the month and a half of work at the head of the ministry, the head of the Minsa stressed that 14% of people vaccinated within the target population now have 36% with two doses and 56% of said population with the first dose.

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