05/14/2021 9:00
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/14/2021 9:18 AM
Pending the arrival of new doses, the City of Buenos Aires will open the registration next week to vaccinate against the coronavirus for
strategic personnel and people between 55 and 59 years
of
age
with risk factors, as announced this Friday by the Minister of Buenos Aires health, Fernán Quirós.
"Given that age is the
main determinant
of having a serious and fatal disease, what we are going to do is advance with vaccination in groups of five years, from 60 down, integrating people between
55 and 59 years old as the first group
and that they are considered among the groups that are ahead of us, ”the official announced.
In his usual press conference, Quirós explained that they will start with the group of "
55 to 59 years, then 50 to 54 and then 45 to 49
and so on until they reach 18 years" and clarified: "We are going to offer registration to personnel strategic as teachers and non-teachers, security personnel, human development and all people with
risk conditions
".
"Next week to the extent that they guarantee us doses of the next shipments, we will communicate the registration process," confirmed the Buenos Aires minister.
Quirós also highlighted the importance of care in closed places, without ventilation or use of a chinstrap and, before the arrival of a Superclásico between River Plate and Boca Juniors this Sunday, he clarified: “
It is not the time
to watch a soccer match between people who they do not coexist, we will have a lifetime to do it. "
Along these lines, he remarked that "in the next two or three weeks is not the time (to meet) because it
is necessary that the cases go down
.
"
He also recalled that there are
10 days left
"to get to the moment of evaluating restrictions" and that the Porteño government will see "the epidemiological evolution week by week" and will continue to look at "what are the
contagion mechanisms
in the community", based on to that they will carry out the proposals "after the middle of next week."
"We need to
go back to the number of cases
we had before this wave," insisted the minister.
And he added: "If the curve continues to decline at the same rate, surely there will be no need to take complementary measures, if the measures are not enough, new strategies will have to be developed."
In addition, he was critical of those who continue to focus the debate on presence in the classroom, something that the City government defended and postulated during the last time in the face of the Nation's refusal: “We have been focusing our debate on the school presence where we have documented a relatively small number of infections and we have diverted the focus that
more than 70% of new infections
occur through social, family and work encounters in closed places ”.
"We have been diverting the focus to a place that is important for social debate but in health terms is not very relevant in terms of the number of cases that are generated within the school," he added.
Then, he pointed to the little care of citizens in social situations within homes: "We are all discussing whether the child is going to be infected at school while we share a closed place with four people that dialogue and
without protection
."
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