Appointments to access the new dose will begin to be granted this Sunday, as reported by President Nayib Bukele on social networks.
Through his Twitter account, President Nayib Bukele announced today that a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine will begin to be applied in the country, following Israel’s experience.
“Taking into account the success of the third dose in Israel, we have decided to start with a third dose in El Salvador,” he said.
In his message, he details that those who qualify for the third dose are health personnel, educators from the public and private sectors, personnel from the Armed Forces, the National Civil Police, the Fire Department; of Civil Protection.
Among those who will benefit from the reinforcement are also the personnel of drugstores, pharmacies, laboratories, comorbid people, as well as adults over 60 years of age.
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As stated by the president, appointments to access the new dose will begin to be granted this Sunday, for which people can enter the vaccination sitecovid19.gob.sv
The data cited in its official account indicate that the country has received 12 million vaccines to date, a figure that has been reached with the arrival of batch number 38.
The president recalled that the immunization process is maintained on Sundays, including the population sector between 6 and 11 years old.
When on September 16 the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, announced during a radio interview that they were about to give the announcement about the reinforcement of immunization, he also stated that people will be given a different vaccine from the one they were inoculated at the beginning of the process.
“The evidence has gone to the balance of changing the formulation mechanism. That means that if you were probably given a mechanism of action like the AstraZeneca mechanism, you have to put a second mechanism of action; If you had the Sinovac mechanism, which is inactivated, you have to insert the mechanism of action, probably messenger RNA. Then they would be changing the third dose of vaccines to the first two that he has already received, ”he said at that time.
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Alabí also specified that to vaccinate with the third dose they would follow the same order that was had at the beginning of the process.
On whether mixing vaccines to give the booster could increase the effectiveness, we will see in the scientific community, since until today there are no conclusive studies regarding combining the first two doses, hence there are specialists who continue to indicate not to combine.
Currently, in addition to Israel, the United States is also authorized by the FDA to use a third dose of vaccine in its population, in its case both from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, but the measure is targeted to favor people who are immunosuppressed.
Other nations that are in the same line with the application of a reinforcement are: China, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Dominican Republic, Chile, Uruguay, Canada and France, in addition to the United States, are Israel, China, Hungary, Emirates United Arab Emirates, Russia, Dominican Republic, Chile, Uruguay, Canada and France. While Germany and Austria were about to start.
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