After 4.30 pm this Sunday he landed in Santiago the plane carrying the sixth shipment of vaccines from the Sinovac laboratory against the coronavirus.
From the Arturo Merino Benítez airport, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, highlighted the arrival of another two million doses to continue the vaccination process which, to yesterday’s balance, already accounts for more than 5.5 million immunized.
The calendar, it should be remembered, will incorporate transportation and basic services personnel, board members and election support personnel, as well as those between 51 and 56 years old, next week.
“Today we received a new shipment of two million doses from China and with these we completed 12 million Sinovac doses. We will continue to receive more vaccines because we have an agreement to receive 20 million (doses) during the first year and 20 million (annually) for three successive years, ”said the head of the portfolio, accompanied by the Chinese ambassador to Chile, Niu Qingbao. , the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, and the Undersecretary of International Economic Relations, Rodrigo Yáñez.
With the arrival of these new doses, the total number of vaccines received from both the Sinovac laboratory and from Pfizer-BioNTech reached 13,068,351.
In addition, the minister announced, without specifying dates, that the arrival of AstraZeneca vaccines is expected, and the authorization of the CanSino and Sputnik inoculations.
The Minister of Health was consulted in the instance about the worrying increase in Covid-19 cases in the country, after the highest number of daily infections so far in the pandemic was reached yesterday, exceeding 7 thousand for the first time. In this regard, he pointed out that there are regions that are experiencing a “second wave”.
Paris affirmed that there has been an “asynchronous evolution of the cases”, that is to say: “We have regions in which there is obviously a second wave, we have regions in which there is a decrease in cases and we have the Metropolitan Region that had been stabilized for a long time, but now has an increase in cases ”.
“Apparently some regions were already in the second wave, we can say that the MRI is beginning its second wave “added.
However, regarding a probable total confinement in the capital -which already has nine communes in Quarantine-, he indicated that “no change can be anticipated at the moment.”
Faced with the occupation of ICU beds, Paris assured that “We have enough beds until Wednesday, but we are making all efforts with the public system, institutional hospitals, university hospitals and private clinics to increase the number of intensive treatment beds if necessary ”.
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