The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) will request information from the Chilean government to analyze, for the next few weeks, the possible authorization of anticovid vaccination in children under 12 years of age, as the Andean country did in the previous days.
“Information has been sought. It is a situation that is in full review.. The minister (Daniel Salinas) has requested that next week our technical departments communicate with Chilean health authorities to have material on the table. The summary is that two, three or four weeks from now it may or may not (approve vaccination for children under 12 years of age) and eventually we will communicate news (on the decision) “, declared to Channel 4 the general director of Health, Miguel Asqueta.
“(We are managing) without haste and without pressure to have conviction “, explained Salinas, consulted by The Observer. Chile does it that way because with the first stage of the campaign it did not reach the highest levels of vaccination, he stressed.
Uruguay, which began vaccinating minors on June 11, has at 70% of adolescents between 12 and 14 years inoculated with the full guideline, while that figure rises to more than 75% in young people aged 15 to 19. Now, with almost 72% of its population fully vaccinated, the country is heading to open the process to those under 12 years of age to raise the numbers while continuing to administer the third doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
In the case of Chile, the announcement was made this Monday, when 87% of the target population had already completed their immunization, according to the vaccination monitor provided by the government.
The approval, ratified by the Institute of Public Health of that country, enabled the emergency use of Sinovac vaccine for children 6 to 12 years of age. Uruguay, according to Asqueta, will evaluate the results with information from local experts, but also with what it will receive from Chile.
Until then, the Andean country had enabled vaccination for those over 12 years of age with Pfizer. “This is great news for school-age children and those children who were not considered” in the vaccination plan, said the Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris at a press conference.
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