Magazine Forbes has named Iveth Camila one of the 100 Powerful Women of Mexico for having helped more than 500 adults to register to receive the coronavirus vaccine, as well as helping to transport them to headquarters in these complicated times of pandemic.
Mexico City, July 24 (RT / SinEmbargo / EFE) .- Iveth Camila Ortiz Ramírez, a 12 year old girl originally from Torreón, Coahuila, achieved that more than 500 adults over 60 years old received the COVID-19 vaccine, an action that has earned it to be included in the list of 100 Powerful Women of the country prepared by Forbes Mexico.
The minor offered to help her grandparents, who live in a community far from the Albia ejido, to register on the COVID-19 vaccination list, when she came up with the idea of helping other older adults in the town , they had problems at check-in. Albia is a town in Torreón with less than two thousand inhabitants, where many people do not have access to the Internet.
Iveth Camila managed to get a van with loudspeakers to advise that she could help them sign up for the vaccine for the virus at no cost.
“They don’t have many resources, they don’t have anything to move, they don’t have money, they don’t have someone to register them, so that’s when it occurred to me,” the minor told Televisa.
At the age of 12, Iveth Camila managed to get older adults in her small community to register for the Covid-19 vaccine. #Powerfull womenhttps://t.co/RGpiUHZBCR pic.twitter.com/HL8c8JZlUL
– Forbes Mexico (@Forbes_Mexico) July 19, 2021
But the girl’s support did not end with the record. Iveth Camila managed to transport older adults to the vaccination site, after asking her mother for help and other people who wanted to collaborate with the cause.
In addition, the minor contacted the Delegate of the Secretariat of Welfare, Cynthia Cuevas, of the region to make sure that the adults were received and vaccinated.
“We are grateful to the creature. They took us, vaccinated us both times. We are ready ”, says one of the people who was able to receive the antidote thanks to Camila.
After her work paid off, Camila, who says she would like to be a doctor, commented that she will continue to register the rest of the adults in that community and hopes to replicate the same action in other ejidos.
For all this, the little girl has been considered one of the 100 Powerful Women of Mexico. “Iveth Camila, an idea that changes lives”, reads the title of the article by Forbes where its commendable work in helping the most vulnerable in these harsh times of the pandemic is recognized.
Vaccination of adults over 60 years of age began on March 27 in Torreón.
COVID-19 IN MEXICO
The Ministry of Health registered 16,421 infections of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest number recorded since January. In addition, the most recent update of the Epidemic Stoplight shows the decline of several entities due to the growth of the epidemic.
This week Mexico added 67,026 new cases and today is the fourth consecutive day in which it reports more than 13,000 infections.
Until this Friday, the country accumulates 2 million 726 thousand 160 infections and 237 thousand 954 deaths from COVID-19, 328 were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
The epidemic traffic light for COVID-19 that will be in force from July 26 to August 8 places three entities at low risk of contagions (Green), 15 at medium risk (Yellow), 13 at high risk (Orange) and one, Sinaloa , at maximum risk (Red).
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– Claudia Sheinbaum (@Claudiashein) July 24, 2021
The states in the Orange Traffic Light are: Baja California Sur, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Veracruz Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Mexico City, Guerrero Oaxaca and Quintana Roo.
In the yellow color are: Baja California, Sonora Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato Querétaro, Michoacán, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos ,, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán.
While in Green they will remain: Coahuila, Aguascalientes and Chiapas.
The third wave of infections has spread mainly among young people and unvaccinated adults as a result of the advance of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. However, the authorities are confident that the advance of vaccination will stop the increase in deaths and hospitalizations.
So far, 58.2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, adding one million 376 thousand 213 in the last day. He also specified that 23.12 million people have received the doses necessary to complete the vaccination schedule.
Next Monday, the Epidemic Risk Traffic Light update comes into effect
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– SALUD Mexico (@SSalud_mx) July 24, 2021
The vaccination program includes, for now, those over 30 years of age, pregnant women, medical and educational personnel, as well as the population over 18 years of age in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Baja California, as part of a pilot plan to reopen the border with the United States.
Mexico has so far received a total of 77.42 million doses from six pharmaceutical companies since December 23, 2020.
