Silvia Gomez
04/26/2021 18:27
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 04/26/2021 6:27 PM
In the first days of March, when the second wave of coronavirus infections was still perceived far away, Fernán Quirós focused on the vaccination of 1,200,000 residents of the City: "They are those who are within the
group of risk
. We have to vaccinate them to avoid the damage of the potential wave that we have ahead, "said the Minister of Health, in one of his usual press conferences. And although vaccination has advanced, Buenos Aires is going through this stage with around
40% of this target population even without having been immunized.
.
In parallel, the second wave of infections is in a critical stage, with the public and private health system on the verge of collapse and with the authorities immersed in a political conflict that generates insecurity and disturbs the majority of citizens.
How is the universe of
1,200,000 people considered as a risk group made up
?
They are health personnel - those who work in hospitals and sanatoriums, and also those independent professionals who do it from their offices -, adults over 60 (which includes everyone, also those who live in residences), under 60 with grassroots diseases (adults between 18 and 59 years old), teachers and strategic personnel (for example, police, firefighters, civil defense).
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor - the real-time dashboard of vaccines that are applied by province and that is updated every day at 6 am, the City received 758,057 vaccines, of which 727,168 have already been applied (617,796 first dose). With some differences, the City's Open Data website indicates that the vaccines received were 709,700 and that all were applied (604,800 first doses). The numbers were updated on Sunday, and are renewed every 48 hours. Between both figures,
the percentage of effective application varies between 60.5% and 59%.
At this time,
the City is vaccinating those over 65 years of age:
43% have already been inoculated, as confirmed to
Clarín
from the Health area.
Today, Monday, the last doses of an available remnant were applied.
That is to say that, with regard to first doses,
a waiting bar opens during these hours.
Vaccination in the City.
It still remains to immunize 40% of the people considered an irrigation group.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
This was also assured by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the head of Government, that a virtual meeting of Together for Change affirmed that all the received doses have already been applied and that the second doses of the Sinopharm vaccine will be used in the next few hours.
However, complete inoculation among health personnel and teachers will advance, due to the fact that the City will receive a part of the million Sinopharm vaccines that, according to the Nation's sanitary criteria, should be applied as second doses;
384,000 doses were admitted on Sunday, 371,200 on Monday, and another 244,800 on Wednesday.
Of this shipment of second doses of Sinopharm,
the City should receive between 60 and 70.
From the Ministry of Health of the Nation they indicated to this medium that
"they are working so that other vaccines arrive."
With this availability of vaccines, the immunization of +60 is delayed.
In general, the political decision in the City is to enable registration as the stages progress or are completed.
Without first-dose vaccinations to conclude stage +65,
the last group of older adults will have to keep waiting.
Regarding the order of priorities, the City assured that the stages foreseen by the Ministry of Health of the Nation will continue;
In other words,
stage 4 will continue
, which provides for the vaccination of strategic personnel (police, firefighters and street agents).
Stage 5 contemplates vaccinating
people who are between 18 and 59 years old, with underlying diseases
(with obesity, diabetes, chronic heart, respiratory and kidney ailments, and immunocompromised). And finally, another group of strategists, in which the teachers were originally, although
there are about 17,000 already vaccinated.
In the midst of the dispute in which the Nation and the City face each other over the
presence in the classrooms
, stage 6 of vaccination could advance some positions.
It happened in the first days of March, when the claim of the teaching unions forced the City to vaccinate a part of this group of workers.
On the other hand, at that time the Sinopharm vaccine was not yet authorized by ANMAT (National Administration of Medicines, Food and Technology) to be applied in people over 60;
That is why it was also applied en masse among private medical professionals, who are not working in hospitals and sanatoriums.
With the data updated to April 25, there were
45,839 teachers and non-teachers registered
;
of which 17,859 were vaccinated.
SC
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