“The vaccine is safe and it is a child’s right to be vaccinated,” Eyra Ruiz, an adviser to the Ministry of Health, told reporters.
Meanwhile, the Panamanian authorities, who recently received a first batch of 60,000 pediatric doses from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, began the process of vaccinating children with those minors who have chronic diseases or a disability.
Subsequently, the rest of the infants will be inoculated, starting with those who reside in the areas most affected by the pandemic.
“Right now we have a population of more or less 5,000 children with chronic diseases to be vaccinated,” Osiris Suira, a nurse at the Children’s Hospital, told AFP.
And he added: “We want to protect as many children as possible against Covid-19.”
With this process, the Panamanian authorities seek to guarantee the on-site start of classes in public education for the month of March.
After two years of the pandemic, most schools in the country have been closed, although some have allowed face-to-face education under certain conditions and circumstances, the agency said.
In addition, the unions demanded from the authorities the maximum sanitary measures against the pandemic for the return of teachers to the classrooms.
“Child vaccination is essential for the return to face-to-face classes,” Ruiz told reporters.
Returning to school was also a concern of the Panamanian citizen Yajaira Saldaña, who had two of her children vaccinated, for which she told AFP: “getting vaccinated was one of my concerns since they are going to return to school.”
Until today, Panama with 4.2 million inhabitants, adds more than half a million accumulated cases and 7,449 deaths from Covid-19.
In less than a month, the Central American country has gone from having a few hundred new infections a day to more than 4,600 cases in 24 hours.
With 6.4 million doses applied, 81% of people over 12 years of age have been vaccinated with two doses, the AFP agency pointed out.
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