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This Monday a lot with 8,190 arrived at the Enrique Malek airport in David. vaccines against him covid– 19 to reinforce the immunization program that is being developed in circuits 4-1, corresponding to David, and 4-2, which corresponds to the district of Barú. Gladys Novoa, regional director of the Ministry of Health (MINSA) indicated that there are around 125 thousand people left behind with the third dose. “Remembering that these first two doses that were applied initially, many of those vaccinated have already been applied for more than a year and experts say that there is a decrease in immunity after six months, so it is important that this booster dose be applied,” he mentioned.
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The doctor recalled that in Chiriquí there are fixed vaccination posts in all districts where people who wish to be vaccinated from the first to the third dose are received, in addition to a second booster for immunosuppressed people.
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He indicated that in terms of childhood vaccination, the region has 50% coverage in the vaccinable population with the first dose and 43% with the second. The teams of MINSA they continue to visit schools and other points to reach children whose parents give permission to receive the vaccine.
Regarding the positivity of Covid-19 cases, Novoa confirms that an increase in cases continues, however, only 10 patients are treated at the Regional Hospital, none in the intensive care room and neither in the shelter. He assures that by this week the trend should be to lower the number of cases.
“The reason why there are not so many hospitalized people is that in the first place Chiriquí has a fairly high percentage of immunized people, but also a large part of the population has already had covid and there is a hybrid immunity that in one way or another is protecting the population, but we need to continue increasing vaccination coverage,” he mentioned.
In addition to the vaccination days against Covid-19, there is the vaccination of the Americas, which also has other vaccines available for the general population.
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