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(CRHoy.com). –This Thursday, March 11 and Friday, March 12, the application of first doses was stopped of the COVID-19 vaccine, reported the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS).
Through a statement, the box reported that the first vaccines assigned for the current week (from March 8 to 12) were applied between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. During Thursday and Friday only second doses were applied.
The CCSS said in a press release that this decision was made “as a strategy to prevent related people from forgetting to attend their second appointment during the days of the Semana Mayor ”.
According to the CCSS if they applied first doses of this vaccine this Thursday or Friday, the second would correspond to Thursday, April 1 and 2, days that correspond to Holy Week.
The medical manager of the CCSS, Mario Ruiz, asked the people who were summoned to receive the second dose Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Easter to attend the appointment on time.
Ruiz indicated that Until this Thursday, March 11, 241,724 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 had been placed. Until last Monday, March 8, 3.9 out of every 100 inhabitants of Costa Rica had received at least the first dose, according to information from the CCSS.
Since the previous December 24 and up to now, only people in priority groups 1 and 2 have been vaccinated. This involves health and emergency response personnel. Also the older adult population residing in long-stay homes and the workers of these places. More recently, vaccination was started in people over 58 years of age.
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