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President Iván Duque announced this Wednesday that the revolving fund of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which is linked to the Covax strategy (collaboration for global equitable access to vaccines against covid-19), has already defined how they will to start the distribution of vaccines in the hemisphere in February.
In fact, PAHO pointed out that Colombia is in the first group to be eligible to receive vaccine batches through this mechanism in February.
Likewise, Duque assured that the exact date will be announced in the coming days.
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The president assured that the country was chosen in this first group “for his enlistment ability.”
Gina Tambini, PAHO representative in Colombia, warned that “next week we will define which countries will receive these vaccines in the first week of February. and Colombia is in this group of countries, because it meets the criteria that have been considered. “
And Tambini added that “in this way it would be expected that the doses will reach the countries the first week of 2021.”
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Duque said that the country has been undergoing a process of “preparation and readiness, to respond with the dynamism required by the greatest challenge the world has recently experienced in public health.”
In this same sense, the Head of State reiterated that “our idea is to start this cycle of mass vaccination from the month of February.”
Stages of the vaccination process
On the other hand, the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, announced what the decree, which lacks only the signature, of the National Vaccination Plan is like.
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In this way, it will be like this:
– First stage: vaccinations for people 80 years and older, and front-line healthcare professionals
– Second stage: a the population between 60 and 79 years old, and students of health sciences, indigenous traditional doctors and community managers.
– Third stage: the population between the ages of 16 and 59 with chronic illnesses and community educational agents, teachers, police officers and the military.
– Fourth stage: linstitutional caregivers of children and adolescents and of the elderly; the population deprived of liberty, lifeguards, firefighters, human talent from funeral homes, institutional caregivers, flight operators -auxiliary and pilots- and the Guards of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute – INPEC. In addition, homeless people
– Fifth stage: people over 16 years of age without comorbidities and non-pregnant women.
What if a person belongs to several stages? The head of the Health portfolio warned that in that case “if a person has conditions that make them belong to two or more stages within the prioritization, the one that allows them to receive the vaccine against covid-19 more quickly will prevail.”
Ruiz also warned that “the type of employment, contractual or type of relationship that the prioritized personnel has with the different institutions is not a factor to take into account for prioritizing the application of the vaccine.”
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