Laura Poy and Carolina Gomez
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday June 18, 2022, p. 8
The seventh stage of vaccination against covid-19 in Mexico will include 15.4 million children from 5 to 11 years of age to attend their basic education. However, the measure, supported by teachers and parents, will begin during a period of increased confirmed cases in the country.
Data from the Ministry of Health (Ssa) indicate that in recent weeks the daily average of cases went from 851, for the period from May 8 to 14, to 5,342 from June 5 to 11, that is, six times plus.
Directors and teachers in front of the group described as positive that they seek to immunize minors of age to attend the third grade of preschool and their primary education, which will allow strengthening school normality, but they warned that a single action is not enough, a comprehensive strategy is required
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They assured that this week a campaign began with parents so that they come to vaccinate their children, a measure that, they recalled, we request from the beginning of the vaccination of the adult population
. To date, 209 million doses have been applied in the country and 88 million 302 people aged 12 and over have been immunized.
Meanwhile, the Ssa confirmed the upward trend in covid-19 infections, with 9,958 cases, for a total of 5,862,554.
In preschool and primary schools, principals and teachers indicated, vaccination of the school-age population was a It takes a long time, because although the educational communities have managed to apply prevention measures, we work with the risk of a chain of infections, either because it was not detected in time at home or because an asymptomatic student arrives.
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Since last Thursday, the registration for children from 5 to 11 years old began and the Ssa announced that to complete the immunization in that population sector, it signed a contract with Pfizer-BioNTech to acquire 8 million doses, which will begin to arrive in the country on the 24th. of June.
In the first stage, which began in December 2020, 1.1 million front-line health workers were vaccinated against covid-19; in the second, 15 million people aged 60 and over were immunized; in the third, to 15.2 million people from 50 to 59; in the fourth they received the biological 16.4 million from 40 to 49 years; in the fifth, 40.7 million young people between 18 and 39 years old, and in the sixth, 13.3 million adolescents between 12 and 17 years old received an anticovid dose.
