The governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, announced on Tuesday that as of Wednesday there will be third free dose of coronavirus vaccine for all people over 12 years of age in the Buenos Aires territory, during the Tenth Summer Conference in the seaside resort of Santa Clara del Mar, Mar Chiquita district.
“We had free vaccine for the first dose from 3 years old, free vaccine met the deadline for the second dose from 3 years old and we had the third dose free from 18 years old, but starting tomorrow, and I am proud to say it, from the age of 12 there will be a third free dose in the province of Buenos Aires“, ad.
The governor ended the cycle of summer conferences expressing “first, second and third vaccine free, free, universal and federaland so we ended the season with a vaccination operation that allowed us to live again”.
The president, accompanied by the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak; his pair of Production, Science and Technological Innovation, Augusto Costa, and the Minister of Government, Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, affirmed that “the province was a locomotive, it broke records in vaccination”.
He maintained that “we do not have to vaccinate a city, we have to vaccinate 3,000 cities and we don’t have to vaccinate 200 square kilometers, but 307 thousand square kilometersand we don’t have to vaccinate a million or three million people, but rather we have to vaccinate 17 million inhabitants and we have vaccinated 16 million with one dose, 14 million with two doses and 7 million with three doses.”
Along these lines, he said: “We set out to do it and we did it and that made it possible to reactivate, to have a historic and record season and that made it possible to go out again, to live again; they said that freedom was not taking care of oneself, freedom was taking care of oneself, freedom was to get vaccinated, as we have done”.
“I want to end by saying that this record season promises to continue not only with the tourist record, but also with other issues; to continue working, because this season is part of the two-year recovery path that is enrolled in a program that says that for six years of crisis promises six years of recovery and transformation,” he added.
“And this season is the beginning of that process that requires an intense process because a lot has been lost in these six years, and we can’t leave anyone behind and for that we must continue“, he added.
Kicillof asserted that “it was important, necessary, urgent, after two years of the pandemic, and four years of neoliberalism and of an economic activity that fell”.
“When we took over, the first summer was already better than previous years because we gave a signal that consumption, work, the focus on the domestic market and that Argentina once again had a growth and development plan, and this happened from 2019 to 2020,” he specified.
Kicillof described that then “the pandemic, two very dark, very difficult years”, a stage that “we consider concluded although the pandemic did not end. But this summer we had it because the State was present, there were national, provincial, municipal, health, tourism, production security and credit policies; we once again had a State at the service of the province and its people”.
“It was necessary from the point of view of the activity, from the municipalities that live largely from tourism; necessary for the Argentine men and women who enjoyed our territory. It was a historic season“, Held.
Minister Kreplak, referring to the epidemiological situation, stated that “today we have 3,500 cases throughout the country and 1,130 cases in the province of Buenos Aires, which represents a drop of 86%which was compared to the same day last week, as we had 7,900 cases.”
“In five weeks it was reduced by 90%, the cases fell a lot and this week was no exception since they fell 25% compared to the previous week,” he added.
Kreplak described that seeing “the evolution of beds, over 4,900 intensive care beds that we have in the province of Buenos Aires, 2,500 beds are publicand it is worth remembering that when we assume we had 800 beds; we have an occupancy of 47% and covid 16% (378 beds)”.
He added that “the hardest data is the deaths, where there are also waves, because when the cases increase, the deceased. Our peak was in the second wave when we had more than 1,900 deaths, but this week (third wave) it was much less and there were 800 deaths.”
He added that “this shows that the evolution of the pandemic was very different and the explanation is that 93.6% of the population is vaccinated and when facing the virus it solves it much faster and more quickly it stops spreading”.
“And to say that 93.6% of the population is vaccinated means that 15,790,000 people are vaccinated. 83.4% (more than 14 million) have the complete scheme with two doses, and almost 40% of the population (more than 6,670,000 people) have the booster, “she detailed.
He stressed that “it is important to say that 93% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 have been vaccinated and 78% with the full schedule, and of the youngest we have 77% vaccinated and 56% with the schedule complete, a job that we are carrying out so that attendance in the classes is taken care of”.
“If we think that with 17 million inhabitants the province of Buenos Aires could easily be a country, the province would be the fourth country with vaccinated people,” he emphasized.
Starting tomorrow there will be free reinforcement for all people over the age of 12 who have completed 4 months of completing their primary scheme ❤️💉❤️
In the province #BackToSchoolIsCarefulThat is why it is very important that we complete and reinforce the vaccination schedules. pic.twitter.com/QdqzSrmgJo
— Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) March 1, 2022
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