They start to vaccinate people over 80 in the City: where to go and what to bring

02/21/2021 18:15

• Clarín.com

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Updated 02/21/2021 18:15

Five thousand people

over 80 years of age

, of the

forty thousand who took turns last Friday

, will be vaccinated this Monday in the City, as confirmed by the Buenos Aires government.

It is the beginning of the second stage of the immunization plan for strategic groups and will be carried out in

29 centers throughout the City

.

For that, there will be the first 40 thousand doses of the Covishield vaccine (from Oxford-Astrazeneca) that were granted to the City by the national government.

And they will also be applied to

those who live in nursing homes.

Those who will begin to be inoculated are the first of the 150,000 people over 80 years of age who live in the Federal Capital.

In addition, until this Sunday at 5:00 p.m., another 47,000 had been registered, which will have priority once the availability of more doses to advance with the stage is clear.

In Buenos Aires nursing homes, another 17,000 people will receive the vaccines.

The vaccination operation will be carried out in 29 public centers.

They are distributed in clubs, government buildings and cultural centers, among others.

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Vaccination centers for older adults

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Source:

GCBA

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Clarín

It was also reported that

a team of two thousand people will

work between 8 and 17 to apply the doses throughout this week.

Those who already have their assigned shift must

attend with the DNI

and after receiving the dose they must remain for

half an hour under observation

.

In addition, there will be seven vaccination centers in private centers with which the Buenos Aires government made agreements.

They are the Italian, German and British hospitals, CEMIC, OSUTHGRA, OSECAC and OBSBA.

In these cases, members should contact each institution to learn about the procedure to receive the vaccine. 

Shifts for people over 80, which is a sub-stage in vaccination for people over 70, were enabled on Friday and in the first hours both

the website and number 147 collapsed

.

Once the problem was solved, between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning

the quota of 40,000

was completed

.

Until now, the Buenos Aires government closed the granting of shifts until new doses were obtained.

This happened, for example, with health professionals who must take turns to get vaccinated in River.

But after Friday's episode, it was decided to

leave the page open to register those who did not get their turn.

At the same time, in the 498 nursing homes for the elderly, 8 mobile units will be deployed to vaccinate

1,6,542 older adults

who live in these places, and not just those over 80. On Monday they will begin vaccinating 1,000.

The vaccination plan drawn up by the City is divided into

six stages.

The first, underway, includes health personnel based on activity risk;

they are followed by the elderly and people residing in nursing homes or homes.

To begin with, a sub-stage was implemented that starts with

those over 80.

Those over 60 to 69 years old follow, then strategic personnel.

In the fifth stage are people between 18 and 59 years of age with risk factors: Diabetes (insulin-dependent and non-insulin dependent);

grade 2 and 3 obesity;

chronic cardiovascular, kidney and / or respiratory diseases.

Lastly, other strategic groups defined by the jurisdictions will be vaccinated according to the availability of doses.

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