More than 325,000 Colombians already have a fourth dose of the covid-19 vaccine

This Friday, May 27, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MinSalud) published a new weekly report on the progress of the National Vaccination Plan against covid-19 (PNV), where it is established that A total of 84,486,714 doses of the available vaccines against this virus have already been applied in the country.

Now that in Colombia the non-pharmacological measures that had been imposed through the health emergency have been relaxed – arranged until this coming June 30 – the authorities’ insistence falls on vaccination and self-care on a voluntary basis, so as not to lose immunity. that has been achieved.

The Ministry of Health report also details that, from May 18 to 24, the number of doses distributed among the different collection and health centers in the regions remained at 90,893,736.

The document shows that There are already 35,743,500 Colombians who have the first dose of biologicals against covid-19, and the number of people who received their second dose rose to 29,409,479.

On the other hand, there are already 6,549,469 people in the country who have chosen to apply the Janssen single-dose vaccine. With these figures, the total number of nationals who completed their initial vaccination scheme, according to the health entity, is 35,958,948.

With vaccination slowed down due to the relative low incidence of the virus, the ministry and other health authorities are also committed to promoting the booster doses available to Colombians, so that four months after the end of the initial scheme, people can maintain the immune response against SARS-CoV-2, covid-19 virus.

On this figure, the report of the Ministry of Health states that in the last week the number of people who received a first booster – or third dose – reached 12,459,136.

As for the second reinforcement against covid-19, recently approved by the national government and the health portfolio for those over 50 years of age, in addition to immunosuppressed and transplanted people – who already had it available -, they were registered until last 24 of May a total of 325,130 Colombians who came for him.

These are the vaccination data in the last week, according to the Health portfolio:

Weekly dose: 451.575

Second week doses: 75.724

Monodose week: 17.183

Likewise, the ministry reported that, so far, the doses reported as applied by private institutions in the country correspond to a total of 15,250.

How is the panorama of covid-19 in Colombia?

The Ministry of Health reported this Thursday that, From May 20 to 26, 4,344 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Colombia. In addition, he pointed out that in this period 21 people died due to this respiratory disease.

According to the health portfolio, the region of the country that registered the most infections in the last week was Bogotá, followed by Antioquia, Barranquilla and Valle del Cauca.

With these new data, the Ministry pointed out that a total of 6,103,455 cases of covid-19 infection have been presented in Colombia. Likewise, 5,934,231 patients have recovered and 139,854 have died.