Health and Transport reinforce bivalent vaccination campaign among collective taxi drivers and new target groups.
Bivalent vaccination is extended to all people over 50 years of age. In addition to personnel who perform functions considered critical in the State administration, Law Enforcement and Security Forces, Armed Forces, health personnel, people with chronic diseases, overweight or obesity, public transport workers, among others.
This is how the health authorities, in the context of the appearance of new variants and sub-variants of concern in Covid-19, and which has generated an increase in cases in countries of the northern hemisphere, reinforced the bivalent vaccination strategy, expanding the calendar and the groups to be inoculated.
This morning, the mobile vaccinator moved to Alameda de Talca, in the Seminario neighborhood, where they inoculated people over 50 years of age and the workers of the collective locomotion of Talca. Action that counted on the associative work between the Seremis of Health, Transport and Telecommunications and the Communal Department of Health of Talca. Municipal officials were in charge of vaccinating the target audience.
In relation to this Bivalent vaccination campaign, the Maule Health Seremi, Gloria Icaza, referred: “We call to prepare ourselves, to have a safe winter with this new dose of annual vaccine, such as the Bivalent. Which will protect us against the two virus strains, the original and the Omicron”. In addition, he added: “Now our target group has been extended to people over 50 years of age, chronic patients and high-risk target groups, such as people who work in public transport and each of these can go to their municipal centers of health as: Cesfam, Cecosf and Postas”, concluded the Seremi de Salud.
The Transport and Telecommunications Seremi, Ximena Oliva, stated that “we seek to have safe public transport, and for this, we want our drivers to be vaccinated with their fifth dose. Which will be preventive for them, as well as for people who use public transport”.
One of the people who came to be inoculated this morning was Juan Carlos Opazo, a driver of collective taxis on Line 16, who pointed out: “This initiative seems super good to me, since the truth is that we could also get infected and transmit this disease to our passengers, but with this vaccination I feel more protected and I will also protect my passengers”, he concluded.
For his part, Leonardo Velásquez, Communal Health Director (s) of Talca, pointed out: “We are carrying out collaborative work with the Seremi de Salud and from the Municipality of Talca there is a commitment to give continuity to the entire vaccination scheme for the Beneficiary population”. In addition, he added: “We have arranged our eight permanent vaccination centers, such as our Cesfam, with attention from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m..”
Finally, it should be noted that the percentage of the target audience for the Bivalent vaccine that has been inoculated at the national level is 25.8%, regionally it is 24.7% and 32.8% in the commune of Talca.
