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Salud Colima – Salud Colima: the Abdala vaccine against Covid-19 is safe

It is one of the two in the world that had studies in the population and not only experimental

The Secretary of Health of the Government of the State of Colima affirmed that the Abdala vaccine against Covid-19 is safe, since on December 28, 2021, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) granted authorization for the use of emergency in our country.

He specified that on December 29, 2021, Cofepris ruled that the authorization for emergency use of the Abdala vaccine was appropriate, with the distinctive name: recombinant protein of the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In this regard, he cited that the Undersecretary for Health Prevention and Promotion indicates that the Abdala vaccine, developed in Cuba, is 93 percent effective and is one of the two in the world that has had population studies and not only experimental ones.

He specified that for the second dose of anti-covid vaccine, the Colima population can go to any of the modules located in the three health jurisdictions, where the scheme can be completed with a Covid vaccine from another platform, including Abdala.

In the same way, he reiterated that it is still advisable to protect yourself with the vaccine against this disease, since cases have increased in the country and the protective effect of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus decreases after six months.

Regarding the influenza vaccine, he indicated that in the case of Manzanillo the vaccination module located in Sanitary Jurisdiction number 3, in the old San Pedrito Hospital, is still open, where girls and boys from 6 to 59 months of age, pregnant women and older adults.

The dependency reaffirmed that vaccines help not to reach a hospital or present a fatal outcome.

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