VACCINATION. A citizen receives a dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
South Post
Almost two weeks after the authorization of the application of the fifth dose of the anticovid vaccine on the national territory, 145 people have already strengthened their scheme against this disease in Sucre. From the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) they recalled that biologicals are available in all the health facilities of the department.
“There has been a departmental order to vaccinate with the fifth dose or booster dose,” said Franklin Morales, head of the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), who said the Electronic Immunization Registry (RNVE) is already open. all the people who apply it. In the early days this was done in notebooks.
On December 5, the Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza. reported that the fifth dose vaccination was authorized; the next day, the national director of the PAI, Max Enríquez, invited people suffering from lung, liver, heart, kidney diseases and those over 60 to get vaccinated.
The ASL and the ASL have clarified that all people who have received the fourth dose can apply the fifth after four months.
In this last week Chuquisaca achieved coverage of 79% with the first dose, 67% with the second, 30% with the third and 9.6% with the fourth, the data from the fifth does not yet have a representation significant.
Given the existence of a percentage of the population that has not yet received even the first dose and another that does not complete its scheme, the health authorities have asked for vaccination to face the coronavirus in better conditions or pass off the disease as a simple cold.
“We will prioritize life and apply vaccine doses,” Morales said, saying all health services in the Chuquisaca department have Sinopharm vaccines available.
ON SUNDAY
After five consecutive days with an increase in covid-19 infections, the daily number of cases has decreased in Chuquisaca. The Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) notified 17 patients of the virus on Saturday.
During the last week, the department has recorded an escalation of infections, in which it has also exceeded half a hundred daily cases of the new disease three times.
Yesterday the new infections amounted to 17, of which 16 correspond to Sucre and 1 to Camargo.
Meanwhile, the number of healed is 12, 11 in Sucre and 1 in Sopachuy.
With this Saturday’s report, the total number of covid-19 cases has risen to 80,915, of which 79,109 recovered, 1,586 deceased and 220 active.
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