Response from Lacalle Pou went to the CASMU proposal, which is evaluating requiring its officials the three doses against Covid-19. “If this particular health center has legal support, that measure will run on its own,” he said. “We as a government, no, we are not evaluating it,” reiterated the president.
According to the fourth dose, Lacalle Pou said that “I hope it is not necessary.” “Uruguay negotiated and secured that booster or that fourth dose,” he said. “If necessary, we have it,” he reiterated.
“There would already be some people with the possibility of giving themselves that fourth dose, but there is no decision made about it yet,” he said.
Lacalle Pou stressed that “the great defense that our country has had is the high percentage of vaccinated.” 76% with a second dose and 43% with a third dose, which with the schedules would reach more than half of the population with the booster dose.
The Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinas, present at the conference, highlighted the third dose as a “fundamental pillar” in the fight against the omicron variant and in avoiding complications, such as hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths.
There are more than 600,000 Uruguayans authorized to receive the third dose and they have not yet been scheduled. The government urges that these people sign up to be inoculated with the booster dose.
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