Coronavirus in Argentina: when could those under 40 be vaccinated according to the province's calculation

05/17/2021 11:05 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 05/17/2021 12:06 PM

In the midst of the second wave of coronavirus that hits the country and keeps the health system in extreme tension, the Buenos Aires government announced that people under 40 years of age who do not have prevalent diseases

could be vaccinated as of September, in an optimistic calculation that Furthermore, it coincides with the previous legislative elections

.

The Province's Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan, said it, who specified that "minors who do not have prevalent diseases" ranging from "18 to 40,

will be the last

, probably for September."

"From next week we will have about 3 million doses available to continue vaccinating. We have the capacity to vaccinate 100,000 or 120,000 per day. So with this amount of vaccines,

in a month and a half or two months we will be able to I know if 60%

but very close, "said the official.

In addition, and on the advancement of vaccination in the Province, he specified that "

all those over 40 who have diseases

are being vaccinated

."

Vaccination against the coronavirus in the province of Buenos Aires.

Photo: Mauricio Nievas.

"The bus drivers, for example, or any other group that has some comorbidity. We already have 20 to 25 percent vaccinated," he said.

So far, the Province has vaccinated 3,207,167 Buenos Aires.

In detail, it is specified that 393,366 of those vaccinated are health personnel (95.22% of those enrolled), 2,215,685 are people over 60 years of age (86.08% of those who signed up).

In addition, 225,088 teachers (50.31%) and 32,245 people who work in security received at least one dose.

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Gollan also considered that it was the appearance of the different variants of the virus that triggered a second wave so "aggressive" that it affects much more "young people."

"If we had only the Wuhan strain from last year, we would be practically with very open activities today, with a level of vaccination like the one we have now. What pushed us back was the new variants that we had that upward and more aggressive curve, and in young people. In therapies today we have young people, "he warned.

A few days after the DNU expires, which established new restrictions due to the second wave of covid, the situation, mainly in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, is still a lot of health tension, and that is why the Buenos Aires government insists on the need for " a total closure "to" finish vaccinating and preserve the health system.

"It seems increasingly logical to take a stronger care measure, for a more limited time," said the Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak.

Speaking to Radio Con Vos, Kreplak assured that "if one achieves a very strong closure, for example a total closure, those closures can be more limited in time and begin to release as cases decrease."

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