The Vice Minister of Health, Ivette Berrío confirmed that the arrival of the updated vaccine against Covid-19 is being managed during this month of January.
Berrío explained that the vaccine technical team is holding conversations with the pharmaceutical company to determine the number of doses that will be arriving in the country.
The vaccine protects against the Omicron variant and its subvariants and arrives just when the country faces a slight increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and after the first case was identified by the Gorgas Commemorative Institute for Health Studies (Icges). of a person with the new subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, known as JN.1.
The latest Epidemiology report from the Ministry of Health (Minsa) indicated that in epidemiological week No.52, which covers from Sunday, December 24 to 30, 2024, 2,234 new positive cases of covid-19 were confirmed.
2024-01-05 20:41:05
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