The authorities decided that the entire Metropolitan region should go back to Preparation – which reduces capacity – after the wide openings that took place two months ago.
The Undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza, confirmed that “we have to keep looking at what happens with this booster dose, how long after it will be necessary to place another, but probably by the experts, what the virologists speak, it will be required.”
He said that national and international experts think that “We are probably going to require the vaccine at least once a year.”
The holder of the portfolio, Enrique Paris, clarified that next year will not return to the complete scheme that has considered two vaccines plus a third booster.
“Most likely, you will have to give an annual booster dose, similar to what is done with influenza,” Paris compared.
He explained that “we have met with people from the United States, Israel, England, Germany and the opinion is that we are going to need an annual vaccination.”
Vaccines have a protection term of at least six months.
For this reason, the authority announced that from December 1, those over 55 who have completed a semester since they completed their vaccination schedule will be required to have the booster dose.
Otherwise, the mobility pass will be disabled, which allows them to enter public establishments, travel between regions and leave the country.
This last measure could incentivize those who require the third dose as well as the 1.2 million who have one or no dose.
This Wednesday there were long lines at the inoculation sites with several hours of waiting to be vaccinated.
Last week, 1.1 million doses were administered, making it the week with the highest immunization in almost five months.
Undersecretary Daza explained that “we are already making contracts for next year to have vaccines available and that people can be vaccinated. “
Asked about the increase in cases, Daza told Radio Cooperativa that “obviously we are in a situation that worries us, we are in a situation with an upward trend” although she clarified that it is “very different from what was the most difficult period, as it was last year and also this year, when we got to have a positivity of 12 or 15% “.
The Ministry of Health reported 1,753 new cases of coronavirus, with a positivity of 3.11% in the last 24 hours at the national level, with 52,817 exams, PCR and antigen test.
The positivity in the Metropolitan region continues at 4% and nine regions have a positivity less than or equal to 2%.
Patients with the active virus exceeded 10,000 cases (10,025) out of a total of 1,686,318 that have been diagnosed since March last year. Two weeks ago, active infections barely exceeded 5,000.
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