06/28/2021 18:56
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 06/28/2021 6:56 PM
These days the City combines two decisive actions to mitigate and delay the possible impact of the arrival of the Delta variant of the coronavirus to the Buenos Aires territory: it hurries the
application of second doses
of AstraZeneca in the elderly population, even well before twelve established weeks, and opens new schemes among the youngest (+40). With this same vaccine and also with Sinopharm. In addition, they are evaluating
whether this week or the next they will enable registration for people under 40 years of age.
Although there is no confirmation yet.
It is also expected that tomorrow a new shipment of
Sputnik V
will
arrive
that will allow to advance with the application of
second doses
among people who are fulfilling the 12-week interval arranged. As confirmed to
Clarín
from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, there are more than
60 thousand
who are in that time range. Most were received by Sputnik V and many of them
are over 70 years old.
What is known so far about the flights to Russia?
The first took off at dawn on Monday and will be back on Tuesday with 350,000 second doses of Sputnik V (in addition to 500,000 first doses).
In other words, these vaccines would arrive in the City on Thursday.
According to preliminary calculations by the Buenos Aires government, they would receive
22,000
doses of the second component and 35,000 of the first.
There is a second flight that would arrive on Thursday, but only with first doses.
There is a third announcement about a lot that would arrive during the weekend;
it is expected to arrive with a greater number of second components (could be 600,000).
If this amount is confirmed, it would allow the City to complete the more than 60 thousand people who meet the deadline before next week.
Vaccination in the City.
They await the arrival of the second component of Sputnik V to complete the vaccination of some 60 thousand porteños among whom the term of twelve weeks is fulfilled.
Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros
Meanwhile, it would also facilitate the opening of schemes among those over 40;
in fact this weekend
thousands of shifts
were granted
for these next days
.
The local Health Ministry estimates that there are still
30 thousand residents of +40
pending to be vaccinated
.
In these hours the Buenos Aires government analyzes the opening of the census for those
between 35 and 39 years old
, but still without details on when it will convene them.
On the other hand, with the availability of AstraZeneca doses, the City made progress in the application of
second doses, especially in those over 60 years of age
; since last week they have been summoned to complete the scheme. "There are 67,200 doses that are going to these age groups. We have even been able to lower the interval, since some neighbors are being
vaccinated before reaching twelve weeks.
The idea is to move forward to
mitigate the impact of the Delta variant;
once circulate as a community, that it finds as many neighbors as possible already inoculated, "they explained from the City.
Last week, the public health body in England (Public Health England) published a study that showed a 92% effectiveness against hospitalization among those who had the second doses applied.
In addition, it was
64% effective against symptomatic disease
(74% against the Alpha variant, which circulated mostly in the population of Great Britain until the appearance of the variant of Indian origin).
The study was conducted on 14,019 positive coronavirus cases identified with the Delta variant, between April 12 and June 4.
Between Friday and Sunday, more than one million AstraZeneca vaccines are expected to arrive in the country;
They are those that were produced in Argentina and that were packaged in the United States.
On Thursday of last week the City registered a record in the application of vaccines:
34,227 doses
.
Of these, 24,689 were applied to the population between 40 and 59 years old.
On Friday there were 30,819 (9,731 in this same population);
and on Saturday 18,820 in this age range, out of a total of 20,960.
On Sunday, almost all vaccines covered with first doses those over 40 (14,287 of 14,572 doses).
Until this Monday, the Capital applied
1,345,361 first doses
and 377,753 second ones.
In total, 1,753,612 arrived.
vaccines.
Vaccination in the provinces
In the province of Buenos Aires this weekend a young population with no previous illnesses or comorbidities was also vaccinated.
For example, in Avellaneda 30-year-old neighbors were summoned.
Even in Berazategui, neighbors aged 18 and 21 received shifts for the next few days.
Since the beginning of the month, the provincial government summoned the Buenos Aires residents to come to the vaccinations, without shifts.
The requirement is to meet the minimum age and present with ID;
this weekend the call was
for those over 50 years old.
In several provinces vaccination began to escalate towards the younger population.
For example, in La Pampa and Neuquén people
over 35 years of age without comorbidities
are being vaccinated
;
in Tierra del Fuego, people over 40;
in Entre Ríos +30.
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