The Peruvian Health authorities accelerated the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 this Saturday, with the application of the third dose, especially to adolescents, and decided to make immunization mandatory to access public instances.
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According to the head of Immunization of the Ministry of Health, María Elena Martínez, from Saturday children between 12 and 17 years old must be vaccinated with the third dose, for which a vaccination day of 36 continuous hours began.
In this sense, large vaccination centers were set up in Lima, the capital city, and the official urged children and adolescents to come and receive the injection.
Some of these centers were located in the Chancas de Santa Anita Stadium, the Ollantaytambo Municipal Stadium in Ate, the Luis Gálvez de Chipoco Stadium in Barranco, the Sichi Roca Zonal Park in Comas, and the César Vallejo University in San Juan de Lurigancho.
In addition, the Ministry of Health extended the waiting period to 15 days for people over 18 years of age who have not received the antigen to receive their third dose.
The Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres, previously indicated that the vaccination card will be required to enter public places such as shopping centers, public offices and educational centers, among others.
We continue with the day of 36 uninterrupted hours of vaccination against the #COVID19 at the Luis Gálvez Chipoco Stadium in Barranco. ���� Children and adults come to this vaccination center to complete their respective doses. # MeVacunoPerú ���� pic.twitter.com/mtvhyvNcyJ
– Ministry of Health (@Minsa_Peru)
March 27, 2022
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He also specified that public administration workers who do face-to-face work must prove that they have been immunized three times.
In Peru, some 28,553,724 citizens have been immunized with the first dose, while 25,761,809 have the second and 12,051,809 the third.
With its closer to 34 million inhabitants, the South American nation has recorded more than 200,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
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