03/07/2021 17:42
Clarín.com
World
Updated 03/07/2021 17:56
Uruguay will begin its second week of vaccination this Monday with doses against the coronavirus from China Sinovac with the advancement of the priority group of people
between 55 and 59 years old
, in addition to chronic dialysis patients or on the transplant waiting list.
The Ministry of Public Health opened these new groups according to the numbers of people who registered during this week and did not do so, which is estimated at 3.3%
of about 63,000 people.
In that sense, the Deputy Minister of Public Health of that country, José Luis Satdjian, told the press last Friday that if the person signed up and did not attend to be vaccinated,
they cannot reschedule
and pass a second instance that will be by age.
He explained that after four days of starting the vaccination process, 53% of the teachers, 65% of the officials of the Ministry of Defense and 47% of the Ministry of the Interior have been immunized.
He stressed that his country has the capacity to vaccinate
more than 30,000 people per day.
Despite the fact that so far
there are 72,642 people vaccinated
, the president, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinas, spoke during the week about the advance of vaccination, which is progressing at a "slower" rate than expected. .
For the Uruguayan president, the "idle capacity" should have been filled.
For his part, Salinas reported on his Twitter account
that he was scheduled to be vaccinated this Monday.
"When I opened the age group that corresponds to me, I signed up and next Monday at 8:30 I will be putting my arm.
In my case the Sinovac laboratory
," he published.
Of the total vaccinated, 43,230 are women and 29,400 are men, according to data from the Ministry of Public Health.
The vaccination centers opened their doors last Monday
to administer 192,000 doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine to police, military, firefighters, teachers and workers of the Institute for Children and Adolescents (INAU) under 60 years of age.
The health personnel will begin to be vaccinated as of next Wednesday, when the first doses of the American Pfizer are scheduled to arrive in Uruguay.
Uruguay, which is the last country in South America to begin vaccinating the population, has registered 63,010 infections since March last year (8,190 active, 83 of them in intensive care) and 645 deaths.
Source: EFE
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