Chile tightens restrictions due to increased infections 1:21
(CNN Spanish) -
The panel of experts from the Institute of Public Health of Chile (ISP) unanimously authorized this Wednesday the emergency use of the vaccine against covid-19 developed by the AstraZeneca laboratory and the University of Oxford for the elderly of 18 years.
The director of the ISP, Heriberto García, affirmed that the entry of 6 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the southern country during 2021 was approved, which will be added to the doses of Pfizer-BioNTech that are already available in Chile, and with those that have been inoculated to 56,759 people with the first dose and 10,315 with the two doses.
Chile announces mass vaccination against covid-19 from the end of January
For his part, the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, announced during a press conference on Tuesday that the mass vaccination of the population will begin in the first week of February after the arrival of the first shipments of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, which will arrive this Thursday to Chile.
During the morning, the Ministry of Health of Chile reported 3,371 new cases of coronavirus and 17 deaths in the last day, adding a total of 709,888 infections and 18,040 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in the southern country.
