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Vaccination against the coronavirus: when will they begin to give shifts for the elderly in the City

2021-01-25T23:52:30.519Z


The Buenos Aires government will launch in the coming days a website that will function as a 'turnera'. Once all health personnel have been immunized, they will start with those over 70 years of age.


Maria Belen Etchenique

01/25/2021 8:45 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 01/25/2021 8:45 PM

Today, in the province of Buenos Aires, if a person wants to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, they must translate that intention into reserving an appointment online.

An online pre-registration form is available on the website of the provincial government, which was implemented to order the application of the vaccine.

Until this Monday,

1,335,056 Buenos Aires

had

registered

.

Almost four out of every 10 pre-enrollees are

over 60 years old

.

In the City of Buenos Aires there is still no similar system.

But that circumstance could change this week, once a flight to Russia is completed to bring the third shipment of Sputnik V. The trip was to take place on Sunday but was postponed.

And during this Monday there was still a definition from Moscow to coordinate the flight schedule.

When those doses arrive in the country,

a "turnera" will be launched

in the city

, a website to request a turn to receive the vaccine, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health explained to

Clarín

.

In the event that the flight takes place in the next few hours, Minister Fernán Quirós will report on this new system on Wednesday, at the press conference in which he gives details of the city's health situation.

At first, the website will be enabled

only for health personnel

, which today has priority.

Between the public and private sectors, there are around

140,000 people

.

Of these, 24,300 were vaccinated with the first dose and the second application is currently being completed.

Sputnik V has two components and its vaccination schedule includes two doses that are given with a minimum interval of 21 days.

The City begins the arrival of the new doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to define the immunization deadlines for the groups that have priority.

Photo: Enrique García Medina

"In the City the scheme established by the Nation is followed. First, health workers,

then over 70, and then over 60.

We estimate that on February 8 the entire health population will be vaccinated," he said. the source to

Clarín

.

Only then and through the same website

will they begin to give turns for adults who are over 70

.

People who fill out the online form will finish the process with

a precise date and place

to go to receive Sputnik V.

For the members of the health system who have not yet been immunized and for those over 70, who represent the age group with the highest mortality,

out-of-hospital posts will be set up

.

Four points will concentrate the largest number of shifts: "They are superpostas and will be in Parque Roca, the San Lorenzo and River stadiums and the Recoleta Cultural Center," they specified.

Later there will be another 20 smaller units located in the fields of Huracán, Boca, Ferro and Racing (its Buenos Aires headquarters, in Villa del Parque), among other clubs.

Foundations located in the City will also give up their spaces and vaccines will be applied in historic buildings, such as the Casa del Historiador, which was originally the house and the publishing house of the Ángel de Estrada family, in the Monserrat neighborhood.

In this first expansion of the vaccination plan in the City, only a small portion over 60 years old will have access to Sputnik V. They will be those who

reside in nursing homes in Buenos Aires

.

There the vaccine will be applied to both staff and adults over 60 and 70.

Once the immunization of health personnel is finished, the vaccine will begin to be applied to those over 70 years of age.

Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami

In recent weeks, people who have relatives in nursing homes have heard the same question: your mother or your father or your aunt or your grandfather, as appropriate to each case, will the Sputnik V vaccine be administered?

The query was made by nursing home administrators who were looking for an authorization or a refusal of this application.

For some relatives the response was quick but for others it was not.

In others, the question raised concerns, because in some cases the consultation came when the ANMAT had not yet authorized its use in men and women over 60 years of age.

But on Wednesday of last week the institution approved its administration in the main population at risk and the logistics to vaccinate those who expressed their will began to organize.

Sources from the health area said that, once the immunization of this group is finished, it will be passed to those over 60, who are third in the national ranking of priority.

For them and them in the City

there is still no date because there are still no doses available

.

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Source: clarin

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