A new batch of 72,000 monovalent vaccines against COVID-19 from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer arrived in the country this Tuesday, December 13, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported.
With these vaccines, it is intended to expand the coverage of first, second and booster doses of the vaccination days carried out by PanavaC-19 throughout the country.
According to the coordinator of the Expanded Immunization Program of the Ministry of Health (MINSA), Itzel de Hewitt, in order to apply the bivalent vaccine, it is a minimum requirement to have two doses of the monovalent vaccine against COVID-19.
He stressed that a batch of the bivalent vaccine is expected to arrive in the country in the coming weeks.
“We urge the population that before December 31 they can have the opportunity to apply the two doses of the monovalent vaccine, so they will be safe to apply the bivalent next year since it has greater coverage against all variants of Ómicron and others” Hewitt finished.
The Minsa stressed that since January 2021, together with the Social Security Fund, the vaccination process against COVID-19 has been carried out without interruptions.
Add to it that anyone who needs to apply their booster doses can go to the vaccination points of both MINSA and CSS to be inoculated for free against this virus.
