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The Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, advanced that the health authority intends to start administer the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine in the first trimester from 2021.
“We hope (it will be) soon, in the first quarter, I do not want to give exact dates,” he said in The Cooperative Journal, while acknowledging that “we have good news from Pfizer’s point of view,” which is on the verge of being approved by the US regulator FDA.
“Pfizer is the vaccine that has submitted its documents to the Institute of Public Health, therefore, We hope to start vaccinating soon if you approve itBut that is slow, because obviously for the pandemic to be controlled we need to vaccinate a very important group of people in Chile, “he admitted.
It should be remembered that before the first authorization for the Pfizer formula in the United Kingdom, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andres Allamand, assured in Cooperativa that “We will be in a position to be on the front line when vaccines are available”.
[En Vivo] Undersecretary Paula Daza: The Metropolitan Region is in a situation of alert, and if it continues with this trend of increasing 20% weekly, obviously the situation in January will be more complex #CooperativeInHome https://t.co/E1QAM4g2pw
– Cooperativa (@Cooperativa) December 10, 2020
On the other hand, within the framework of the return to transition of the entire Metropolitan Region, the undersecretary did not want to give a forecast of what follows for the capital, since “we cannot predict the future, but we can see the warning signs, the red lights and make decisions. “
“The Metropolitan Region is in a situation of alert, in the sense that we are seeing an increase in trend, cases are increasing and we have to see what happens in these weeks (…) if you continue with this trend of increasing 20% weekly -which is a significant number for the region where eight million Chileans live-, obviously the situation in January could be more complex“estimated Daza.
But nevertheless, said to expect an improvement in the indicators “With these measures that we are taking today”, because “if the epidemiological situation improves and this increase begins to decrease, we will be able to have a much safer January.”
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