The government of Mexico City has started the vaccination campaign against seasonal flu and covid19.
When autumn arrives and the temperatures drop considerably, the Secretary of Health of the Capital applies from this Monday, October 3, and until March 31, 2022, vaccinations against both diseases at the same time, as long as you are of age and at least 4 months have elapsed since received the last dose against SARS COV2.
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According to Jorge Alfredo Ochoa Moreno, director general of public health services at the Ministry of Health in Mexico City, it is necessary to protect oneself from the winter season in which both diseases – covid19 and flu – gain strength.
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Both the flu and the covid are diseases that occur more frequently in the colder months and then, the covid is already a disease that is here to stay and although the pandemic is already over, in any case the virus is circulating and there will be a slight exacerbation on colder days, in the last days of the year in December and in the first days of January “, he explained in an interview with Grupo Imagen Multimedia (GIMM).
This is why it is important that the vaccination campaign begins two months before winter, highlighted Ochoa Moreno, specifying that the vaccine that will be applied to adults against covid-19 will be the Cansino vaccine, recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). . .) in May of this year.
The logic of the October vaccination is that within 30 days, 45 days the antibodies are already high enough and we are protected against both diseases, “added the director general of public health services.
The official stressed that health forecasts warn that from now and every year people in Mexico City and the rest of the world must apply both vaccines and for now the country’s capital is a pioneer in implementing this measure.
This is the prognosis we have, that we will have to apply the covid (vaccine) every year because it is already a disease that already has an endemic phase, it is no longer in an epidemic, it is already in an endemic phase “he advanced in the interview.
In this campaign it is planned to immunize 2 million 450 thousand people in the 230 health centers available to the government of Mexico City; In addition, in order for more people to have access to vaccinations, vaccination posts will be set up in parks, markets, squares and even workplaces.
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