Last week the Ministry of Health reactivated the bivalent vaccination campaign against Covid-19, an inoculation that has the particularity of offering double protection, since it has both the original strain of coronavirus that emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, as well as with Omicron.
For this new campaign, the call to get vaccinated is for all those people who belong to risk groups and who have completed one year since their last immunization.
This day, the Undersecretary of Public Health, Andrea Albagli, referred to the importance of going again to receive this booster dose while leading a vaccination operation in the commune of Cerrillos. Likewise, he referred to the increase in people infected with Covid that has been registered in the last two weeks, indicating that the increases and decreases in coronavirus cases are part of the natural fluctuation and viral circulation, as occurs with other respiratory viruses.
“The most important thing that this new increase in cases has to remind us is that Covid-19 is here to stay. Although it is no longer a health emergency, that does not mean that Covid is no longer present and that it is no longer a threat to people’s health,” he highlighted.
Likewise, regarding masks, he insisted that they recommended their use for people who have respiratory symptoms and that they strongly recommended them in health centers, “especially in emergency rooms, because that is where we are most likely to have a greater viral circulation.”
The use of a mask is recommended if respiratory symptoms occur or when going to health centers.
In figures, he indicated that according to the latest epidemiological report the increase compared to the previous week is 12%, and that in turn in the previous week was 45%.
“This tells us that we have had a sustained increase, but that the speed of the increase has also been decreasing or at least decreased this last week compared to the previous week,” he explained. On this point, the Health authority stated that seeing these figures in absolute numbers means that today there is an average number of new daily cases of approximately 300 to 400, and that is very different from the scenario we had at the beginning of this year, in March and April, when the average number of new cases per day was approximately between 1,500 and 2,000.
The following risk groups that have completed one year since their last immunization with bivalent can be vaccinated:
Health personnel. Immunocompromised. Chronic. People 80 years or older.
To check when the last vaccination was, people can access the website I get vaccinated with your Rut and unique password. The different vaccines you have received and the dates are specified there.
The vaccine can be administered at any of the centers authorized for it. To review the different vaccination points, the Ministry of Health has made available a territorial viewer with the places and hours of service.
2023-11-02 15:36:08
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