The Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires, Nicolas Kreplak, assured this Saturday that heMandatory coronavirus vaccine is not a “necessary at this time” measure and expressed concern for the people who have not yet received the second dose.
“I do not think it is necessary at this time,” the official said about the possibility that vaccination is mandatory. Regardless, Kreplak pointed out that does not consider it “unreasonable” to implement this measure if the epidemiological situation changes it.
In that sense, he stressed that “the obligation of the anticovid vaccine is one of the measures that can be taken if the other measures do not work. It is one of the issues that were put on the table yesterday with the country’s Health Ministers “.
In dialogue with CNN radio, Kreplak expressed his concern about the percentage of people who, having received the first dose, continue without completing the scheme despite the fact that vaccination is free in the province and where 80% of the population has already received the minus one vaccine.
“There is a percentage that started (the vaccination plan) and the second dose is not given, these are people who may not be going now because they have other priorities, and who do not go even though they have a shift, and who missed three or four times. the province of Buenos Aires and vaccination is free and they can go from Monday to Monday and do not go, “said Kreplak.
On this, he emphasized that it is necessary “to increase that, as well as to reach that 20% that we did not reach because it is a significant number of the population where the disease can circulate, and generate complications not only for them, but for the rest of society” .
The Buenos Aires health minister said that “not only do we have to continue as we are, but that even with the third doses that we are applying, we are going to get here until winter.”
In this regard, he indicated that during the meeting of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa), made up of all the ministers of Health of the country, the implementation of a health pass for mass events or to go to closed places, such as a gym or media outlets, was analyzed. transport.
“The health pass is a measure to ensure that everyone has the vaccine” indicated, while remarking: “We are working so that everyone gets vaccinated, we must reach that 20% of the population that we do not reach. That’s why the health pass “.
Referring to the current health situation in the country, he specified that “we are not concerned, but we are concerned with what may come. In the summer we may have some outbreaks, but the most worrying thing can come in the winter“.
Regarding what happens in the province of Buenos Aires, he assured that “the epidemiological situation is very good” since the number of infections is in “4% of what were the maximum (levels) of the registered cases” during the worst moment of the pandemic.
Kreplak explained that the district currently registers a weekly average of 500 cases “when our peak was 12 thousand”, for which he considered that “although they do not decrease, (the curve) is stabilized, both in cases and in hospitalizations.”
However, he warned that two situations outside the Argentine situation are those that “have to put us on notice.” And he pointed out what is happening in the northern hemisphere where it is recorded “a very big wave especially in Europe, and the US too, with a lot of cases”. And on the other hand, the situation “in countries that do not have a very high vaccination rate.”
The head of the Buenos Aires Health portfolio also referred to the new variant of coronavirus, Ómicron, and in that sense pointed out that it is a “very new” situation and that during the Cofesa meeting it was resolved to “close flights and travel to the entire African continent. “
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