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The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, was invited this Sunday to a new chapter of Zero tolerance, instance in which he mainly addressed the cases of COVID-19 that in the last time have had an increase in the Metropolitan Region And that adds to the expected outbreak of infections during January 2021.
According to the health authority, “yesterday we had 401 cases in the Metropolitan Region and today we have 446 cases, and in the last 12 days the variation of the Metropolitan Region is more than 12%“, Therefore,” here we are going to have to act quite urgently. “
Given this scenario, the Minister of Health confirmed that some communes “are going to have to go back” phase, depending on which one they are in, and that “I think some of them will go back but not quarantine.” Anyway, he anticipated that there will be some that return to phase two, “which means they can be quarantined on the weekend”, he stressed.
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On the other hand, the Secretary of State announced that from the first quarter of 2021, vaccines against COVID-19 would be available. Specifically, this would occur in January, although “I cannot give an exact date,” he said.
In such a way that doses prepared by the Pfizer and Sinovac laboratories would be the first to arrive in Chile. In the first case, “we negotiated 10 million 100 thousand doses”, while in the second there was an even greater negotiation of vaccines.
As for Pfizer, in January 50 thousand doses would arrive first. This since “the company is going to slowly deliver the doses“, Because” that vaccine needs a very special temperature treatment “at 70 degrees below zero. Due to this specific condition, Paris highlighted that “the company undertook by contract to deliver the vaccine to the place where it will be placed. And when you have the vaccine and you take it out, you can keep it from 2 to 8 ° for four to six days ”.
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Likewise, the Minister of Health explained that “In the first trimester, we plan to vaccinate the critical population, which is 955,177 people. (…) And there are obviously the health personnel, the long-stay centers, like Sename; there are also the waste collectors, firefighters, kindergarten personnel, the Armed Forces and Security, and transporters (…) prisons as well, all the closed centers and people deprived of liberty ”, he explained.
Finally, Enrique Paris confirmed that the Comptroller’s Office has already accepted the negotiation signed with AstraZeneca, a laboratory that already has studies of the vaccine in older adults, like Pfizer.
“But we are not going to administer the vaccine before having the certification”, he sentenced.
Finally, he indicated that regarding the Sinovac vaccine “we have budgeted 5 million doses in the first quarter, that is, we would have enough to vaccinate 2.5 million people ”in Chile.
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