The National Commission for Vaccination and Epidemiology (CNVE) approved this Thursday with immediate effect, reduce to five months the minimum interval to apply the third dose of vaccine against COVID-19, after completion of the two-dose schedule.
As reported by the Ministry of Health this afternoon, currently the third dose is enabled for people over 58 years old, first responders, and public or private education officials. As a contingency plan, the health areas can place the third dose anyone over the age of 18 Five months have passed since you received the second dose.
The third dose that is applied in the country is of the brand Pfizer.
The CNVE also agreed to eliminate the impossibility of apply the COVID-19 vaccine together with other vaccines. The new guideline is that it can be done; for example, administer a vaccine against COVID-19 and against influenza concomitantly.
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