Eduardo Ortega Barría recommends those infected with Covid-19 to wait 90 days to apply the booster dose

The medical researcher and national secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation (Senacyt), Eduardo Ortega Barría, recommended that people infected with Covid-19 wait 90 days after recovering to apply the booster dose.

He explained this Wednesday in the program Cuarto Poder, that this is because “reinfection is rare in the first 90 days after recovering. There are those who say more, but until we know more about omicron, we recommend 90 days”, precise.

Due to the circulation of the omicron variant, cases of Covid-19 in the country have been increasing.

There are currently 78,917 active cases, and from the beginning to date a total of 659,379 infections have been registered.