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At the beginning of the COVID-19 balance delivered by the health authorities, the Minister of Health Enrique Paris, responded to the criticisms alluding to the National Vaccination Plan, calling as “doomsayers” those who foresaw a negative outlook in the country before the inoculation of the population took place.
In particular, the Secretary of State based his argument by citing the opinion column in The Mercury by Francisco Covarrubias, dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts of the UAI and panelist of Zero tolerance, called “The Chilean Miracle.”
In this regard, Paris pointed out that “I am not going to name anything, or anyone, but it says (the column): ‘a study center, whose errors have been equivalent to its ominous predictions, in December it warned that in the most probable scenario we are going to enter next winter without being vaccinated Great part of the population’. That is obviously denied with the current figures.“Said the head of Health.
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He continued with “another famous expert, said on January 20 in Cooperative radio what was it impossible to vaccinate more than 40 thousand people a day. Mr. Expert, we have vaccinated more than 300 thousand people a day. Please recap and correct your sayings“, Indicated Paris.
And, at the same time, he approached a “Senator, who I am not going to name, who at the end of last year called the government a ‘clown’, always using such pejorative words. Why? For going to the airport to look for ‘two boxes of vaccines’ with which the process began. Obviously, if at the beginning it cost a lot to have vaccines“Explained the minister.
To date, he acknowledged, “we have received more than 10 million doses of vaccines in Chile. And Chile is the first country in the world in vaccination speed ”, he highlighted.
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Therefore, “I am glad that Francisco Covarrubias spoke out and rescued such negative comments that all he does is harm the government in the face of public opinionParis added.
“We must be more cautious, and so do we,” he added. “We must be more humble, more cautious with our comments, and we must be more positive”.
Finally, the Minsal headline alluded to another columnist, who by means of a letter “referred to the ‘ominous of catastrophe’We are not going to name them again, but one of them said that we would not have a vaccine until 2022. It seems that the calendar failed“, Sentenced Paris.
Responding to the above, he reported that To date, 4,796,878 people have been inoculated throughout the national territory. And that in fact, until now it is being studied to advance the vaccination of certain groups in the calendar established by the Minsal.
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