Until a few days ago, the vaccinations were empty, but since the third wave of COVID began, the panorama has changed and there are long lines of people, many entire families who attend to be vaccinated against covid-19. Yesterday, at door number 6 of EsSalud, family groups were found, who came for the dose they lack. The queues were long, but still people preferred to wait and go inoculated.
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In the queues we found fathers, mothers, young people, adults, children and even 90-year-old grandparents, who were taken to receive the first, second and third doses, as appropriate. Given the high demand for vaccines, they even had hours to extend the schedule to 12, due to the high demand.
“My wife, my daughter and I are going to get the second dose, before I could not come, because I was under medical treatment, but now that the third wave has started, we do not want to suffer with the virus,” said Josue Muñoz Berrocal, who together his wife Gianina Meza and their 12-year-old daughter Britany stood in line for the vaccination.
The administrator of the El Tambo polyclinic said that the cThe number of people who attend to be vaccinated increased by 400%. “Here people come as a family, because we are treating the first dose to children from 12 to 17 years old, the second and third doses to those over 18 years old,” the official said.
The manager of the EsSalud Junín Assistance Network, Miguel Arévalo Vila, said EsSalud applied 240 thousand doses of vaccines, and they are going to increase vaccinations at the El Porvenir Farm, where they will reactivate a Vacunacar for families to come with their vehicle, and also They will set up a special site for the vaccination of minors.
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As we are already in the third wave, the nurses and technicians controlled temperature and oxygen saturation, if there was a suspect, they sent him for his covid test.
The director of the Mantaro Valley Network, Enrique Porras Orellana, said that in Huancayo and Concepción, about 6,700 people were vaccinated in one day, when before they vaccinated up to 4,000, but on Tuesday 9,000 people were treated. In the Wanka Coliseum and the Open Plaza they report more than 1600 vaccinations each one applied a day. The official assured that they have a sufficient stock of vaccines.
In the Catalina Huanca sector, through the university city, EsSalud displaced the Vacunabus, there the neighbors and merchants came out and formed the line. “The EsSalud Vacunabus has already traveled through the districts of Quilcas, San Jerónimo and San Pedro de Saño and now they will be in El Tambo and tomorrow in the journalist’s park in Cajas Chico from 7 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon,” reported the lawyer Elva Calero Romero.
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The director of the Valle del Mantaro Network, Enrique Porras, said that the brigades are also preparing for the vaccination of minors between 5 and 11 years of age, since in a few days the pediatric doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive in the country to inoculate children to protect them from COVID-19. It is worth mentioning that the Regional Government of Junín has planned that vaccination be in schools.
