07/13/2021 9:06 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 07/13/2021 10:24 AM
The Minister of Health of the City, Fernán Quirós, warned this Tuesday that "it is evident that the
Delta
variant
[of the coronavirus] is coming to Argentina
with the people who are returning
" from abroad.
Faced with this reality, the Buenos Aires official stressed: "Any person who returns to the country must comply with strict quarantine within their home,
isolated from their own family
and a PCR should be done on the seventh day, because even though they do not feel the symptoms, we have detected several people who on the seventh day did not have any symptoms and despite this they tested positive in the PCR, some of them also with the Delta variant ".
In addition, Quirós added about the Delta: "It is a variant of great care and that requires a lot of focus from all of us to be able to comply with the protocols and regulations in force. And if we do that we will surely
delay community circulation as much as possible
, that is, the risk of that someone being in the city could get that variant ".
At the same time, during a press conference, the Buenos Aires official said that with the arrival in the country in the last hours of new doses of the
second component of the Sputnik V vaccine
, the City will have about 35 thousand of those doses.
"We have about 60 thousand people waiting [for their second dose of Sputnik V], who have completed
more than 90 days
. So that a little more than half of them will be able to be called in the next few days," he said.
Along these lines, Quirós specified: "As soon as we know the amount and the day, we will immediately be communicating with the people who are waiting and applying the vaccine in the first 24 or 48 hours after receiving it. We
estimate that it will happen between tomorrow and the day after. ".
"To the extent that each of the vaccines reaches its interval or we have the vaccine to apply it, the criterion is the
highest priority for the second dose,
" said the Buenos Aires minister.
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health indicated that the City would be assigned "about 35 thousand doses" of the second component of the Sputnik V vaccine that arrived in the country in the last hours.
In this context, he announced that this week they will begin to summon Buenos Aires vaccinated with Sinopharm to receive the second dose.
"All the people who have received Sinopharm between the 21st and the 28th will be invited to be vaccinated [with the second dose]. Between Wednesday and Friday of this week we will be inviting a group of about
50 thousand people
who comply this criterion these days, "he said.
Regarding the second doses of AstraZeneca, the Minister of Health of the City specified: "All people who turn 56 days [from the first inoculation], that is 8 weeks, when they reach that value we will be inviting them to the second dose .
"We still do not have large groups of people who are reaching the eighth week for this week, so surely in the coming weeks we will be inviting those people to be vaccinated," he said.
Finally, the Minister of Health explained that "each of the vaccines has what is called an interdose interval, that is, a minimum time between each of the doses that one has to respect so that the biological effect of the vaccine is sufficient. ".
"In the City we have the interdose intervals of the Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines that are not yet met. All those that have been met, we have already vaccinated," he added.
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