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The Ministry of Health confirmed that at least 50,652 doses of the 192,000 of the Sinovac pharmaceutical company that will arrive this Saturday in the country, from China, They will be sent to Leticia and Puerto Nariño (Amazonas), Inírida (Guainía) and Mitú (Vaupés) to vaccinate those over 18 years of age against covid-19 In the next weeks.
The intention of the Government is to lift an epidemiological blockade in the Amazon and in these border regions with Brazil to mitigate the circulation in the region of variant P.1 of Sars-CoV-2, which has proven to be more infectious, and incidentally avoid that extends through the national territory.
This was approved by the Vaccine Advisory Body as an exceptional measure in the Colombian Amazon belt, according to Minister Fernando Ruiz at the end of the Unified Command Post (PMU) this Friday in Manizales.
“The vaccine advisory body, which is the scientific committee that supports decisions on vaccine issues, He recommended us to raise an exceptional distribution situation for the Amazon area, seeking to make an epidemiological blockade of the region and generate less transmissibility in the Amazon area, and also protect the rest of the country from the potential arrival of this strain, “added the minister.
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In this regard, the Vice Minister of Health, Luis Alexander Moscoso, stressed that although the Amazon plan contemplates vaccinating the entire population without taking into account the phases or stages, In this case, minors, pregnant women or people with a positive result less than 90 days will not be vaccinated.
It should be remembered that Leticia and the Amazon remain blocked by air from the rest of the country after in mid-January it was decided to suspend flights to prevent the spread in the country of P.1, which has already been identified in at least seven cases local covid-19. The region is also going through its second peak of the pandemic.
Likewise, the seroprevalence study of the National Institute of Health last year andn found that in a representative sample of the inhabitants of Leticia, 60 percent had specific antibodies against Sars-CoV-2, which would indicate that they have already undergone a possible infection.
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They arrive first for those over 80
In the PMU, a document was shared with the health authorities of the territorial entities in which the destination of this second batch of vaccines against covid-19 that arrives in the country is established, after Pfizer’s that brought in 50,000 last Monday.
The rest of the 192,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine, which offers 100 percent protection of severe cases of covid-19, will be distributed as follows: about 100,000 to continue immunizing health workers From first line and more than 40,000 for those over 80 who are in long-stay centers. This information, it is worth saying, must be finalized in a resolution.
With this specific group, vaccination will begin in the population over 80 years of age, the others prioritized in stage I of the National Vaccination Plan and which are estimated to be 1.2 million.
The document also confirms that the second batch of Pfizer vaccines arriving next week will carry 50,550 doses. As established, this will be distributed to the territorial entities under the established mathematical formula to continue covering human talent in health.
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