Ecuador begins vaccination of children between 6 and 11 years old

Health brigades began immunizing children between the ages of 6 and 11 on Monday to protect them from COVID-19, in a government effort to achieve the goal of vaccinating 2.3 million minors by December this year.

In a school in the south of the capital, the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, said that “we have sufficient scientific evidence, experience in other countries such as Chile and China, we have compiled all that information that (the vaccine) is effective, safe, in children of this age ”.

The vice president, Alfredo Borrero, a doctor by profession, joined the brigades and inoculated several children from a state school in the opening ceremony.

The Minister of Education, María Brown, pointed out that the families have been asked to present the consent document for the administration of the biological. The minors will be injected with two doses of the Chinese Sinovac, with an interval of 28 days, while the five-year-olds will be given a third of the regular dose of Pfizer and a booster after a semester.

The government of right-wing president Guillermo Lasso, in power since the end of May, has managed to immunize more than 10 million Ecuadorians, out of a total population of 17 million, using 23.6 million doses of Sinovac, 6.4 million of Pfizer, 858,000 from AstraZeneca, and 800,000 from Cansino, the latter from a single application.

Since the start of the pandemic at the end of February 2020, this country has registered 513,026 infected and 32,899 deaths from this virus.

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