Although the demand for people requesting vaccination against Covid-19 has been substantially reduced, the country still has sufficient doses of vaccines, which are available at 281 vaccination places, as well as at provincial and area offices. .
This was revealed by the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Rivera, who said that the population is still looking for the vaccine and that an example of this is that in a single day 180 doses were given to people who came for the first time. immunized against Covid-19 coronavirus.
He said the country has five million vaccines from Sinovac guaranteeing their stay until next year and 2.2 million from Pfizer. He urged the population to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and influenza viruses, which guarantees that if they suffer from a respiratory condition, they do not present complications and the symptoms are milder.
Until last Monday, 97,570 doses of the flu vaccine had been applied in the country, 31% in people over the age of 50. Another group that has been vaccinated are pregnant women, people with underlying medical conditions, and health care workers.
Low incidence of Covid
Case reports of the Covid-19 virus continue to remain at low levels in the country, with yesterday’s notification of 35 new positive cases, 10 people hospitalized, 276 active cases, a daily positive of 3.27% and the latest four weeks of 1.35%, according to the epidemiological bulletin number 966. The day before, the deputy minister of collective health, dr. Eladio Pérez said the country continues to monitor and sequence virus samples, with the omicron variant still present.
He said omicron’s sub-variant BQ.1, which attacks Europe, is circulating in the country.
