Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28, the application campaign with the Cuban Abdala vaccine against Covid-19 in the state of Zacatecas concludes.
Until the last cut announced last Tuesday by sources from the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), they had applied 22,400 of the 54,400 doses that arrived in Zacatecas.
The progress up to that date, after six weeks of application, was 41.1%, leaving 32 thousand doses pending to be applied.
In Zacatecas the application of the biological from Cuba started on january 10 in the medical staff of public health institutions. Subsequently, it was extended to the general population on January 25 in the 12 centers located in the same number of municipalities and which will close tomorrow Tuesday.
In an interview, Verónica Díaz Robles, delegate of Development Programs in Zacatecas, said that later it will be determined if there will be a need to relocate vaccination points to other municipalities to serve the population from other regions of the state.
He announced that requests from private companies requesting their workers to be vaccinated will be met. As an example he mentioned that This week the vaccine will be applied at the La Colorada mine, in Sombreretea unit that has just over two thousand employees.
We have been in communication with the private initiative in attention to those companies that have a lot of staff and that want attention
When questioned about the expiration date of the biological, the official replied: “There is no risk.” She later clarified that “The technical – biological part” of vaccination against Covid, in the state of Zacatecas is attended by the coordinator of the Mexican Social Security Institute.
The vaccination points that will remain open today from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. are located in the capital’s Multiforo for the population of Guadalupe and Zacatecas, Concepción del Oro (IMSS Bienestar hospital), Sombrerete (Centro del Well-being), Fresnillo (Well-being Center), Valparaíso (Community Hospital), Pinos (IMSS Well-being Hospital), Jalpa (Community Hospital), Villanueva (IMSS Well-being Hospital), Jerez (Health Center of the Municipal Headquarters), Tlaltenango ( IMSS Well-being) and Rio Grande.
