Given the increase in cases of Covid-19 and flu that the country has recorded in recent weeks, the Ministry of Public Health has ordered the opening for the placement of the fifth dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 for the entire adult population 18-year-old who is more than four months old after wearing the third.
Furthermore, he urged people who fall into risk groups to also receive the flu vaccine, available in the same places where Covid-19 is located, to avoid complications in case of infection with one of the two respiratory viruses. .
Doctors Eladio Pérez, Deputy Minister of Collective Health, and Lucía Vargas, director of Immunopreventables by Vaccines, have ensured that there are almost 300 vaccination posts available nationwide, located in squares, hospitals, provincial offices and house-to-house visits. , and that the country has enough vaccines to cover demand.
They recalled that patients who are not vaccinated or have only two doses are the ones who are requiring the most hospitalizations for Covid-19.
They stressed that the application of the fifth dose to everyone over 18 begins this week and that it is being administered as a booster dose.
Health Minister Daniel Rivera recently revealed that the country had seven million vaccines in stock against the Covid-19 virus, five million of which were from Sinovac and two million from Pfizer. 274,803 fourth-dose vaccines against Covid-19 and two million 504,678 third-dose vaccines were introduced into the country.
