The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) delivered on Tuesday the weekly report on the progress of the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Costa Rica.
According to the data provided by the institution and analyzed by Delfino.cr, during the previous week (twenty-ninth campaign) 84,996 doses of vaccine were applied, which represents an acceleration of 4.40% compared to the 28th week when 81,410 doses were applied in one week. This acceleration puts an end to the downward trend in vaccination recorded for four consecutive weeks due to the weekly reduction in doses delivered by Pfizer.
In total, the CCSS reports as 2,606,791 doses of vaccine placed of the 2,846,265 that have been received by the country (91.58%). Of the doses placed, 1,783,949 are first doses (68.44%, +79,085 new) and 822,842 are second doses (31.56%, +5911 new).
51.45% of the target population (≈3,467,364 according to the latest official estimate) have received the vaccine: 23.73% have the complete two-dose schedule. Of the total number of vaccines applied, 2,096,470 correspond to Pfizer (out of 2,265,315 received) and 510,321 to Astrazeneca (out of 540,000 received)
The number of the population to be vaccinated and the number of people that make up each priority group are pending to be updated by including people between 12 to 17 years, 11 months and 29 days; as well as the inclusion of other groups of people, risk factors, etc. The INEC estimates that the total population of the age to be vaccinated in the country is 4,274,344 people, however, this figure includes -among others- undocumented people, who for now cannot access the vaccine in the country.
In the first priority group, made up of some 110,000 people from the first line of response against the pandemic, older adults institutionalized in long-stay centers and their caregivers, the application of 240,862 doses of vaccine (+1470) was registered, of which 139,362 correspond to first doses ( +1445) and 101,500 at second doses (+25). As it is, the 126.69% of the original estimate of people who make up group 1 have already received the first dose and the 92.27% of the total have their complete scheme.
With respect to second priority group, made up of some 817,364 people over 58 years of age, 1,434,412 doses of vaccine (+8224) have been placed, of which 729,936 correspond to first doses (+2544) and 704,476 (+5680) to people with complete vaccination schedules . As it is, the 89.30% of the second group already has the first dose and the 86.18% of the total have their complete vaccination scheme.
In the third priority group, made up of about 1,565,000 people between 18 and 58 years of age who present some risk factor such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, chronic respiratory or kidney diseases, grade III and morbid obesity, as well as cancer patients and people with syndrome of Down, the application of 893,595 doses (+75,296) is reported, of which 876,807 correspond to first doses (+75,090) and 16,788 to second doses (-206). As it is, the 57.09% Of the total number of people in group 3, they have already received the first dose and the 1.07% of the total have their complete scheme.
In the fourth priority group, made up of some 150,000 civil servants from the Ministry of Public Education, from private education centers, workers from Aqueducts and Sewers and from the National Children’s Trust, the application of 26,093 doses (+5) is registered, of which 26,054 correspond to first doses (+5) and 39 correspond to second doses (+0). As it is, the 17.36% of the total have received their first dose and 0.026% have received the second.
Finally, in the fifth priority group made up of some 825,000 people over 18 years of age, without risk factors, 118,289 first doses (+1) have been placed, as part of the strategy of not losing any vaccine in the absence of a population of other priority groups. As it is, the 1.43% of the people in this group have received their first dose.
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