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This Wednesday is a key day for the claims of Pfizer and BionTech to use their vaccine against covid-19 in Chile. This morning, starting at 8:30, the Institute of Public Health began a vaccine feasibility meeting, where their eventual and very likely approval for emergency use will be resolved.
In total, a group of 22 specialists will review the background information provided by both pharmaceutical companies, and will vote on the option of granting them the respective permit on national soil. With that visa in hand, there is nothing left but to wait for the arrival of the first shipment of some 50,000 vaccines and for one of the most anticipated milestones of the pandemic to be met: the start of vaccination in Chile.
For its part, regarding these initiatives, Sinovac – which is applying a Phase 3 study in the country with the Catholic University – is close to submitting its application to the ISP. This was confirmed by Dr. Pablo González, an academic from the UC School of Medicine.
However, the reality of the country remains complex with its upward trend in new cases.
Given this, the infectologist at the Barros Luco Hospital and an academic from the Usach School of Medicine, Ignacio Silva, called for reinforcing prevention.
The internist at the Sótero del Río Hospital and magister in Public Health, Juan Carlos Said, said that it is necessary for the Metropolitan Region to continue advancing or retreating en bloc.
However, during his participation in the Health Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, Minister Enrique Paris announced that if a setback to transition is determined, it will be applied in some communes and not in the entire capital.
To this he added an advertisement. Together with the Ministry of Economy, they began to work on a modification to the Step by Step plan, where the local reality is respected.
And in Tuesday’s report, 1,498 new covid-19 infections were confirmed, out of 29,482 PCR results, so the positivity climbed to 5.08%. In addition, 10,864 assets and 18 deaths were recorded.
Thus, the total number of cases detected reached 575,329 and 15,949 people died with the virus.
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