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This Monday begins COVID-19 vaccination for minors with comorbidities

This Monday, October 18, the COVID-19 vaccination on minors with comorbiditiesinformed the director of the Institute of Health for Wellbeing (Insabi), Juan Ferrer.

He assured that this Thursday there was a meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and, later, the record of minors with comorbidity, about 33 thousand.

The president’s instruction was that we already started on Monday. Because, look, by October 30 we will have concluded, at least, with a dose to all people over 18 years of age. This country has bought 240 million vaccines; Of course, there have been laboratories that are not so punctual, I do not come to ventilate it here, but they have not delivered the vaccines on time.



During the appearance in the Senate, he indicated that AMLO’s instruction was to look for people who have any fear of getting vaccinated. “Do it, that assures us that we may become more contagious, but we are more likely to endure the contagion,” he added.

The Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, and the head of INSABI were questioned by senators from the PRI and PAN about the strategy to face the pandemic and the shortage of cancer drugs.

They reported that to date 67 million 950 thousand 153 people have been vaccinated with at least one dose and 127 million 689 thousand 345 doses of vaccines have been received and packaged in Mexico.

757 minors with comorbidity have been vaccinated in CDMX

The Secretary of Health of Mexico City, Oliva López Arellano, reported this Saturday that they have received the vaccine against COVID-19 757

minors with conmorbidities
, from 12 to 17 years old, who have filed an amparo for having some comorbidity.

The capital official explained that the government has received 835 amparos to vaccinate minors, of which only 78 are in process. “Yes, there are 835 protections that we have, of which 757 people have already been vaccinated and the rest are in the process. All the protections are taken care of ”, he said.

Judge ordered the government to vaccinate all minors in Mexico

A federal judge ordered the Government of Mexico to modify the national vaccination policy so that all those under 18 in the country are inoculated against COVID-19 and not only those who present

comorbilidades
.

Claudia Irene Gámez Galindo, secretary of the Seventh District Court in the State of Mexico, granted a definitive suspension to a minor, a precautionary measure that has general effects.

He pointed out that his ruling is not intended to generate an imbalance in the operation and strategy against COVID-19, but rather to protect the human right to health of a sector that has not been considered by the authorities.

They call to register minors with comorbidities

Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell called for the registration of

minors with comorbidities
to receive the COVID-19 vaccine since only 22,978 minors between the ages of 12 and 17 have registered and a population of 1,500 with chronic diseases is estimated.

The authority recalled that the

Registration
It has been open for three weeks. The minors with comorbidities who can access the COVID-19 vaccine are those who suffer from cancer, transplants, HIV; severe chronic lung disease; chronic conditions of the kidney, liver or digestive system; chronic neurological disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other endocrine diseases (includes obesity grade 2 or greater); genetic or chromosomal abnormalities and adolescent pregnancies.

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