Third dose in Peru will combine vaccines from different nndc laboratories | PERU

After the Ministry of Health (Minsa) gave the green light to the application of the third booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to doctors, nurses and technicians and that it would take place in the last week of October, the Vice Minister of Salud, Gustavo Rosell, reported that the protocol is already being completed and that then a registry of front-line personnel will be made to proceed with the application of their booster dose.

The official indicated that the revision of the registers would begin next week, and then put together a schedule and begin with the application of the booster dose.

“The protocol is being finished, we are practically finishing next week. If approved, it begins with the review of the people who have received their second dose, that is, all the health personnel as stated. The health personnel will enter a registry where we will review all the data we have because some of the health professionals have been vaccinated due to their age, but most have been vaccinated at their health facility in the first months, both in February and in March “, indicated from the Centinela hill in San Martín de Porres.

“Once we have the Reconciled registry will schedule vaccination through the different health establishments as was done in the first vaccination that was had. So this we should be starting next week with the revision of the vaccination standards of the third dose”Rosell added.

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Vaccine combination

The Deputy Minister of Public Health explained that the vaccination protocol of a third dose, a heterologous vaccination is being handled as homologous. Therefore, he reiterated that so far the vaccines Pfizer and AstraZeneca would be applied as a booster.

“If you were vaccinated with a vaccine from one laboratory, you can be vaccinated with another. In addition, it is recommended in some cases, and in other cases homologous vaccination can also be done, but at this time, at least, the first third doses will be through different laboratories, that is, a heterologous vaccination “he explained.

Gustavo Rosell provided these statements after supervising the start of the VacunaFest day against COVID-19 on Cerro Candela, in San Martín de Porres.

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