The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) enabled the agenda this Tuesday afternoon so that the population can receive the fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine. It is for people between 18 and 49 years old with comorbidities who received their Sinovac-Sinovac-Pfizer vaccination schedule.
Health personnel may also be scheduled, regardless of the vaccine they have received in their first three doses and those people who need to renew their vaccination schedule to travel. In that case, they must write an email to [email protected] and attach a copy of the passage, the portfolio reported.
120 days must have passed since the last dose, or since you had the illness. They will be given the Pfizer platform vaccine. Also, you can receive the flu vaccine simultaneously.
Currently the fourth dose is already authorized for immunosuppressed people, those over 50 years of age with comorbidities and for all those over 70 years of age. To date, 40% of the total number of people who gave themselves third doses also received the fourth, according to official data.
The Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinascalled a press conference last Friday to report on the rise in cases of coronavirus in Uruguay in the last two weeks. “The pandemic is not over,” he remarked.. The age group where the rebound in cases occurred is from 18 to 49 years old. At the moment they are labor outbreaks, which lead to intra-family and in some cases, to educational levels.