Montevideo, December 22 (EFE) 80 years old and immunocompromised people who choose to be immunised.
This is indicated by a statement released by the portfolio which specifies that those who are included within these groups and live in other parts of the territory will be able to do so from 2 January.
“In all cases you have to wait 180 days from the last dose of the anti-covid-19 vaccine, the same after having had the disease”, says the text.
On the other hand, the ministry specifically recommended giving the third and fourth doses, as appropriate, to people over the age of 50.
This Monday, Uruguay surpassed the one million accumulated cases of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus since the start of the pandemic by adding 4,941 new positives in the last week, according to the latest report shared by the MSP.
The document details that between December 11 and 17, 22,293 tests were carried out and that the positivity was 22.2%, a figure higher than that seen in the third week of the same month, when it was 15.4%.
On the other hand, 4,599 people are affected by the disease, 2,410 more than those who did so in the previous seven days.
Meanwhile, 56.8% of intensive care beds are occupied, 1.7% by people with covid-19. This figure is lower than that of the previous report, where the figure was 2.5% out of a total of 58%.
Finally, between December 11 and 17, two people died of the disease, and the death toll since March 2020 has risen to 7,552.
As for vaccination, according to data appearing this Thursday on the web monitor developed by the MSP, 2,895,220 people completed their immunization regimen with two doses from Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinovac, the Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca or the American Pfizer.
In addition, 2,066,038 people received three doses of the vaccine and 792,819 people reached the fourth dose. EFE extension
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