05/18/2021 10:47 AM
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 05/18/2021 10:47 AM
At 8:30 this Tuesday,
the registration
in the City
was opened
for the vaccination against the coronavirus of people with risk factors between 55 and 59 years old.
In the first 90 minutes, 5,670 were scored.
1,380 teachers and school employees also signed up.
This stage of the campaign also includes strategic personnel.
The registration is done through the web buenosaires.gob.ar/vacunacovid.
Later, the Buenosairean Government
will be enabling the shifts as it counts on the vaccines
.
Therefore, you will have to wait until you receive the notification with the day and time so that the link that allows you to load the data is enabled.
As the necessary doses are available, the vaccination of the other age groups of people with risk factors will be opened.
The next one will be 50 to 55 years old.
It is estimated that there are
1,200,000 people in the City who belong to different priority and risk groups
, so they must be vaccinated.
As of May 16, 60% received the first dose (729,444 people), while 18% had already been inoculated with the second dose (216,307 people).
At this point people can score included in
stages 4 and 5
of the vaccination campaign.
The campaign now continues with the vaccination of people with risk factors aged 55 to 59 years and strategic personnel.
Photo Andrés D'Elía
Stage 4 includes
strategic personnel
: security forces, firefighters, emergencies and human development, teachers and non-teachers.
It also joined those who work and collaborate in community kitchens.
Online registration is required only for the educational staff subgroup.
For the registration of personnel from the Security Forces and community kitchens, the
registers
of the City's ministries of Security and Human Development will be used, respectively.
These groups will be assigned shifts in the vaccination centers set up in Buenos Aires territory.
Stage 5 covers people between 55 and 59 years old who have prevalent diseases or health conditions that are risk factors.
How is the registration for people with risk factors
People with underlying diseases
must prove this condition
.
At the time of registering, they have to complete
an affidavit
.
This procedure is carried out online, when the identity data and the contact form are loaded, or through line 147.
Appointments will be granted
by mail, WhatsApp and SMS
, according to the order of registration.
When contacted, the neighbors will be able to select the date, time and place of preference through a personalized link.
The
public vaccination centers
are located in clubs, government buildings and cultural centers, distributed throughout the territory of the City.
They operate from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On the day of the vaccination, you must carry a certificate proving the prevalent disease.
Photo Andrés D'Elía
On the day of vaccination, you
will have to present your ID and a medical certificate or proof
that at least one pathology or clinical criterion that includes it within this prioritized population segment must be presented.
It is recommended to arrive 15 minutes in advance.
After receiving the vaccine, the person must
remain for half an hour under observation
.
Those who require it, may attend with a companion.
Later, those vaccinated
will be scheduled to receive a second dose
, which may be given after an interval of 12 weeks.
Which are the risk factors
The
list of risk conditions or chronic diseases prioritized
for this vaccination stage, as detailed on the Buenos Aires government website, is as follows:
- Obesity:
body mass index (BMI) greater than 35 kg / m2.
- Cardiovascular disease:
heart failure, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension.
- Moderate or severe respiratory
disease
:
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, severe asthma.
- Diabetes
- Chronic Kidney Disease:
including people on chronic dialysis.
- Cirrhosis
- People with acquired immunosuppression
- HIV / AIDS
- Transplanted:
people with solid organ transplants and people on the transplant waiting list.
- Oncological and oncohematological patients
with recent diagnosis or active disease: less than one year from diagnosis, current treatment or having received immunosuppressive treatment in the last 12 months, relapsing or uncontrolled disease.
- Active tuberculosis:
new cases or relapse, diagnosed in the last 12 months.
- People with Down Syndrome
- Intellectual and developmental
disability
:
that disables the individual capacities to execute, understand or sustain personal care measures over time to avoid the contagion or transmission of Covid 19;
and / or people who are institutionalized, in homes or long-term residences;
and / or require professional home care or hospitalization
The arrival of doses and the progress of the vaccination campaign
On Friday, May 14, the City received
33,600 first doses of Sputnik V vaccines
, belonging to a shipment of 500 that arrived the day before.
This allowed him to advance with the inoculation of those over 60 years of age.
“So far we have received 961,900 vaccines, of which
we have
already
applied 955,093, 99.29%
.
That means that 24.6% of the population of the City of Buenos Aires already has at least one dose, "said Buenos Aires Health Minister Fernán Quirós in his report on Tuesday.
As specified,
60.52% of the population at risk already received at least one dose
and 7.24% of the porteños were inoculated with both.
Within the risk groups, 18.1% received both doses.
"In terms of health workers, we have vaccinated 190,217 people with at least the first dose, of which 142,438 received the complete scheme," said Quirós.
And he added:
"Of adults older than 60 years and over, we vaccinate 531,731 people and 59,985 of them with a complete scheme
.
"
On Monday, May 10, another 500 thousand doses of component 1 of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus arrived.
On Monday the delivery of vaccines was released from another shipment, which arrived in the country on Monday the 10th, from which the City should receive
another 30,000 vaccines
.
More vaccines from
AstraZeneca
would arrive between Thursday and Friday
.
It is estimated that there would be one million doses, which are part of the production that took place in Argentina, with a total of 3,960,000 first doses to arrive in May, according to announcements from the national government.
On Friday, on the other hand,
861,000 second doses would also enter AstraZeneca
to complete the immunization of those over 60 who already have the first vaccine.
They belong to the Covax fund of the World Health Organization.
NS
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