Within the framework of the Vaccination Campaign against COVID in educational establishments, today vaccinators from the COVID-19 Salta Center will administer doses to students at the Colegio Madre Teresa de Calcutta, located at 4 Fray Honorato Pistoia Avenue, in the north of the capital. Attention will be provided until 4:00 p.m.
In this sense, the medical director of the COVID-19 Salta Center, carmen de la serna He stated that “we will deploy this strategy in different educational establishments, with the prior authorization of the student’s father, mother or guardian.”
In addition, De La Serna said that National Calendar vaccines will be applied “we request that you go to the mobile immunization post with the corresponding card.”
pediatric vaccination
From the Immunization Program they informed about the biologicals that are applied to people from 3 to 17 years old. Adriana Jurehead of the Program, commented that “children between 3 and 4 years old will be inoculated with Sinopharm, because it is the only approved vaccine for this age range.”
Meanwhile, the age group from 5 to 11 years old, who have not received any dose against COVID-19, can be immunized with the Pfizer pediatric vaccine. “It consists of two doses with a minimum interval of 21 days, between the first and the second application,” he said.
Finally, the age group from 12 to 17, are immunized, as established by the national guideline, with Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
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