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The President Sebastián Piñera confirmed that until this Tuesday, more than 5 million Chileans have been vaccinated against Covid-19, thus fulfilling the first goal set by the Government for its immunization campaign.
“We are working tirelessly to fulfill the second commitment we made to Chileans: vaccinate the entire target population, that is, 15 million people during the first half of this year“, remarked the President from La Moneda.
Specifically, until noon this Tuesday, the doses have been administered to 5,011,517 people, a number that, according to the screen displayed in the Government Palace, continued to rise in parallel with the President’s activity.
– Total people vaccinated against # COVID-19 to March 16 at 12:00. #YoMeVacuno ✌️ pic.twitter.com/mubNmxqltg
– Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) March 16, 2021
Piñera further noted that there are almost 11 million doses of vaccines in the national territory and in the coming days 4 million more will land, so “we are getting closer to achieving the 35 million that we have already secured through contracts and agreements, which will allow us to vaccinate the entire target population.”
Along these lines, he anticipated that starting next Wednesday, March 24, “we will start vaccinating the population between 50 and 59 years oldAnd so we will continue with the younger generations. “
The idea of continuing since then with the vaccination by age groups is that this section “Get your first dose before the April 10-11 elections”.
With the contribution and merit of all we have vaccinated 5MM people, which corresponds to our population at risk and we did it 15 days before the goal.
We will continue to vaccinate the healthy population aged 59 or -, until everyone is vaccinated. This is how we protect the health and life of Chileans. pic.twitter.com/lFGKWF6t5N
– Sebastian Piñera (@sebastianpinera) March 16, 2021
CLIMATE CHANGE OBSERVATORY
The President took advantage of the instance to also announce the launch of the Climate Change Observatory, an initiative of the Ministries of Science and Foreign Relations together with the Antarctic Institute that, in their words, “it will allow us to observe, measure and feel the evolution” of this phenomenon.
Piñera explained that sensors throughout the country will collect information on “temperatures, rainfall, temperature levels and salinity of the sea, evolution of ice masses, solar radiation, speed and direction of wind and marine currents” in order to be “the watchful eyes to combat climate change”.
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