Together with other regions of Peru, Huancavelica It is one of the regions where the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is not yet 100% covered.
This was announced during her visit to the Huancavelica region, the coordinator of the functional unit of healthy food and nutrition of the General Directorate of Strategic Interventions in Public Health of MINSA, Lili Sandoval Cervantes
“The population has not yet received its third dose, which we are proposing as a complete vaccination scheme, it is important that the population has that third dose so that it can be 100% protected from this COVID-19 disease”, affirmed Sandoval Cervantes.
He added: “We need the population to understand the importance of this third dose of vaccination, so that it is protected and avoids reaching the ICU.”
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In the same way, he reported that more than 70% of the general population of Huancavelica are missing so that they can complete their third dose.
“It is an important number, for this reason, we need to join efforts by all the allies to help us convince the population of the need for this third dose,” explained the official who will carry out an inspection today of the vaccination centers in the city of Huancavelica .
The province of Acobamba is the one with the most resistance to vaccination against this disease.
“Acobamba is the area where there is more resistance, where because of the ideology they have, we need to strengthen trust in them much more, it is not easy, it is a very difficult task, but we need the population to understand that this vaccine is not going to work for them. to do harm and the risk is not having the vaccine, “he explained.
