The provinces of Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Cristóbal concentrate the largest number of people who have not yet been vaccinated against Covid-19, the Minister of Public Health revealed yesterday.
Dr. Daniel Rivera reported that the strategy of going house to house will intensify to reach 5.6% of the population, about 420 thousand
people, who still need to be vaccinated against the virus for the country to reach the goal of immunizing 70% of its target population.
He said that the timely actions of the Government have resulted in a significant drop in the main indicators of the behavior of the virus in the country, including that it has the lowest fatality compared to other countries.
“The wise decisions of the Government headed by Luis Abinader have allowed us to present excellent indicators today, but we still need to reach the highest rate of vaccinated and for this it will be necessary to go knocking on the doors from house to house,” said Dr. Rivera during his intervention in the IV International Congress of Critical Medicine and Intensive Care 2021 (COCECATI) and the Congress of the Central American and Caribbean Consortium of Intensive Care, which is held in Punta Cana, La Altagracia province.
5.6 million vaccinated
To date, the National Vaccination Plan registers 5,610,578 people in the country who have two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 6,881,125 have the first dose.
The booster dose or third dose, which according to the results of the investigation, HeteroVacRD, presented in the country this week guarantees higher levels of protection, has been applied to 1,348,899 people.
TWO DEAD
289 infections
Yesterday, the country reported two new deaths and the registration of 289 new positive cases of the Covid-19 virus detected in the last 24 hours, as well as a reduction in the percentages of hospitalization due to the disease.
Yesterday 6,946 laboratory samples were processed, of which 289 were positive.
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