Vaccines: the City will open registration for m …

The Government of the City of Buenos Aires will open the registration on Tuesday so that people between 45 and 49 years old without risk factors can get a turn to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. The official announcement will be made by the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, during the traditional morning press conference.

“In the next few days the assignment of shifts will begin as new doses are received from the national government. The decision was made on the basis that age is the main determining factor for a person to develop a serious or fatal disease, ”explained Horacio Rodríguez Larreta’s administration.

As usual, registration must be done through the website buenosaires.gob.ar/vacunacovid. There you have to fill out the personal data form. Once this step is completed, the city government will send an email, a WhatsApp message and an SMS to confirm the registration.

“Appointments will be granted via email, WhatsApp and SMS, according to the order of registration. Once they are contacted Neighbors will be able to select the date, time and place of preference through a personalized link. After receiving the vaccine, they will remain under observation for 15 minutes ”, they specified from the Buenos Aires government.

They also clarified that once the shift is assigned, it is advisable to attend 15 minutes in advance So what you can go with a companion.

With this announcement, the government of Rodríguez Larreta seeks to continue lowering the age of people to be vaccinated, but also to continue immunizing older individuals who, due to different circumstances, have not yet received the inoculant.

So much so that, in parallel, we continue with the last section of the 1st Stage (health personnel of the public, private and independent system), of the 2nd Stage (over 70 years and residents of nursing homes), of the 3rd Stage (people between 60 and 69 years old), 4th Stage (strategic personnel) and 5th Stage (people with risky conditions).

Since December 29, 1,134,075 people have received the first dose of the Sputnik-V, Sinopharm or AstraZeneca vaccine. Of the total, 310,150 have already completed the immunization with the second component. Thus, in the Buenos Aires territory 1,444,225 vaccines have already been applied, 97.5 percent of the 1,481,812 received so far.

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