The head of immunizations of the Tacna Regional Health Directorate Haydee Quispe Gutiérrez reported that so far 3,688 bivalent vaccines against COVID-19 have been applied out of the 22,200 doses received in the region.
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Initially, it was planned to vaccinate health personnel, then older adults and since last Thursday people between 18 and 59 years of age have been inoculated. In this last range, 67 people have been applied in these three days, he mentioned.
double vaccine protection
The specialist stressed that the bivalent vaccine has the advantage that it brings two antigens: one against the original strain known as Wuhan and the other against the Omicron variant.
He highlighted this condition since the virus continues to mutate as it happened since the third wave when there were many more cases of infected people.
Older adults continue to die
“Unfortunately, there are still deaths, especially the elderly,” he said. So far only 36% of older adults are protected.
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Those interested can go to any health establishment, whether it is the Ministry of Essalud, Essalud and the Hipólito Unanue hospital.
Advance in vaccination in Tacna
Regarding the progress in vaccination in the population of Tacna, the head of immunizations indicated that 86% of the population is protected with the first dose, 80% with the second, 66% with the third and 15% with the fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19.
