There are more than a million people on the waiting list to get vaccinated, those people were scheduled when the system changed and secured the quotas, but in exchange for waiting for the expected text message to arrive of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) that announces the day, time and place of the inoculation.
The weeks that follow Hundreds of people will receive the message, because the MSP will open 450,000 vacancies to vaccinate between Monday, April 5 and Saturday, April 17. Of that total, half (225 thousand, in round numbers) will be second doses and the other half for people on the waiting list.
Nevertheless, the quotas will be opened with priority and the stripes will not be as wide as it happened days ago with the opening of 18 to 70 years. As he knew The Observer, for the million people who wait there are 800 thousand doses of Sinovac and 200 thousand of Pfizer.
At the opening from April 5 to 17, the 225 thousand places in Sinovac will be for the 50 to 70 age group and those of Pfizer for people over 80 and healthcare personnel.
If we add those who have already been vaccinated (more than 500 thousand people), those who are scheduled for the next few days (400 thousand), and the million people on the waiting list, the government will have succeeded in ensuring vaccination for at least 1.9 million people, that is, 70% of the target audience, which is in total 2.8 million.
Like every Wednesday today the fourth delivery of Pfizer is expected to arrive with another 50 thousand doses they will land at Carrasco airport. Until this Tuesday, between the first and second doses about 459 thousand vaccines of Sinovac out of a total of 1.75 million that arrived.
In May, a new game of 1.25 million will be added and a total of 1.5 million people will be able to vaccinate with these doses. The population will be completed with the 2 million from Pfizer, which is enough to vaccinate 1 million.
The Director General of Health, Miguel Asqueta, announced this Saturday through his Twitter account that Those who have contracted coronavirus after receiving the first dose against the disease, must wait 90 days after the start of the immunization to apply the second dose, as resolved by the MSP.
Vaccination rate
According to the data of this Tuesday, Durazno is the department that vaccinated the most people in relation to its population and reached 28.40%, Rivera follows with 27.82% of the inhabitants vaccinated and in third place is Florida with 23.73%.
The departments that go the most late They are Canelones (8.56%) and Paysandú (9.91%). The mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, said that the department “It has not linked well”. After the loss of 800 vaccines due to the breakdown of the cold chain in the departmental hospital and theglomeration in the Pando vaccination center due to a system failure, the mayor added that “a greater fortune” is needed. Although, he indicated, these are specific cases, they are not the signs that are expected.
“Vaccines were lost in the Canelones hospital, nobody wants it but it happened to us. And now he passed us two blocks in line due to a mistake and all the people were summoned at the same time in Pando. We have not linked well in Canelones”, He said on radio Montecarlo.
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