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“This morning at 5 in the morning the plane that brings the first 10,000 doses of the vaccine from the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratory to our country took off from Belgium. The plane will arrive in Chile tomorrow around 7 in the morning”, Reported this morning President Sebastián Piñera, thus announcing the long-awaited news of the arrival of the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, which was authorized last week by the Institute of Public Health for use in the country.
“This means that as of tomorrow Chile begins its vaccination process”added.
As the president had previously explained, this process will be carried out gradually, as will the sending of the doses to our country, which will be carried out gradually. “Periodic and systematic”.
Along these lines, the President indicated that These first 10 thousand doses will be destined to medical personnel who work in intensive care units with critical patients. “Our intention is to vaccinate 100% of these medical personnel in the regions de La Araucanía, Biobío and Magallanes and 1/3 of the medical personnel in the Metropolitan Region”, He indicated.
“When the second shipment arrives next week we will continue with this vaccination process,” he added.
As explained by the president, this vaccination process has been organized in stages. Thus, first the medical personnel who work with critical patients will be vaccinated, then the rest of the health personnel, the elderly, chronically ill, those who are deployed in the fight against Covid and who also assume a special risk, and then continue with all the rest of the population of our country.
“Our intention is that the bulk of the critical group at highest risk, that is, health personnel, the elderly, chronically ill, those who are deployed in the fight against the coronavirus, approximately 5 million people, we can vaccinate them during the first quarter of next year”, He explained. “And that the bulk of the target population of our country, about 15 million Chileans, we can vaccinate them during the first semester of next year”.
In addition to this, the president also assured that measures are being taken for the safety of the process, adding that self-care measures must be continued, because “the vaccine will be a great help, but the coronavirus pandemic does not end with the vaccine”.
“We have taken all measures for the safety of this vaccine process and all Chilean men and women should know that the vaccine in Chile is going to be voluntary and it will be free. And, therefore, eThe State will provide vaccines to all people to avoid confusion or deception“, Held.
Vaccination, added the president, “is an act of solidarity, it is not a personal decision”, because “when a person is vaccinated he is protecting his health, his life, but he is also protecting the health and life of all those around him”, “especially of the most risky such as the elderly and the chronically ill” .
President Piñera also referred to the new strain of Covid-19 detected in the United Kingdom, indicating that for the moment it has not been detected in Chile.
“We are permanently studying the evolution and mutation of the virus in our country and so far we have not detected that new variant that emerged in the UK, especially in the southeastern part of the island, but of course we have to prepare for all the different eventualities that may occur“, Held.
In addition to this, he also reiterated the call for self-care measures and to avoid crowds.
“I want to ask once again all my compatriots to take care of ourselves (…) to take care of our community and, therefore, to avoid the crowds that we have seen in recent days, to maintain physical distances, to continue with practices personal care such as frequent hand washing, such as physical distancing, such as the use of masks. And, additionally, that we strictly comply with the standards issued by the Ministry of Health, “he said.
