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The Minister of Health, Jorge López Pena, stated this Tuesday that the Council of Ministers will evaluate the reduction in capacity in closed places due to the fourth wave by COVID-19 and within the framework of the arrival of national holidays. However, he indicated that this would not be necessary in the case of schools if the students complete their doses of vaccine with the consent of their parents.
“In this way we will avoid having to reduce the capacity and (return) the distance. If we have a population that is on their (full) doses, we do not need to be reducing. Simply the use of masks and vaccination would be essentiales”, said the head of the Health portfolio.
Along these lines, the minister called on parents to allow their children to be vaccinated so as not to stop the education.
“We are working with the Ministry of Educationdoing the raking with the brigades, neighborhood by neighborhood, address by address”, he indicated in this regard.
On the other hand, regarding Supreme Decree No. 014-2022-SA, López stated that said rule regulates the importation of vaccines against the coronavirus and stressed that they will not deny private companies from acquiring the doses, since the Sometimes has its own stock.
On the other hand, the Minsa reported that a total of 19 million 28,495 people have already received their third booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Peru, which represents 66.6% of the general population.
Through its Twitter account, this ministry reports that to date 78.67% of the vulnerable population has already received their third booster dose against the new coronavirus.
According to Single National Health Information Repository (Reunis) of the Minsa, until 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12, 78,597,490 doses of the covid-19 vaccine have been applied nationwide, of which 29,570,018 correspond to a single dose (90.2%) and 27 million 729,483 people (84.6%) received two doses of the vaccine.
In order to close the immunization gaps in adults and children in the country, the Minsa continues to set up vaccination points and travels to different areas of Lima and provinces, with the aim of bringing the population over 5 years of age up to date. on their COVID-19 vaccines.
Meanwhile, since the beginning of its application in Peru, to date more than 2 million 269,000 people have already received the fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19, which represents 17.7% of the population from 40 years.
On April 2, adults over 70 years of age and people with comorbidities began to receive the fourth dose of this vaccine in Lima and Callao, but now it has been expanded nationwide with the population over 40 years of age, adding the staff of health.
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