This Thursday, in a ceremony that will take place at the Garrahan pediatric hospital in the city of Buenos Aires, the Ministry of Health will officially launch its vaccination campaign for children under 2 years of age.
The event that will be chaired by the holder of the organism, Carla Vizzoti, will take place at 3:00 p.m. In addition, other officials and representatives of the Ministry of Health and the government.
To vaccinate this population, the Ministry of Health made available to each of the provinces the first 645,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which, according to what was established at the last meeting of the Federal Health Council (COFESA), will serve to start the vaccination scheme for minors.
The doses will be used for girls and boys between 6 months and 2 years 11 months and 29 days. In addition, the biological will be used to apply the first reinforcement for the population of 3 and 4 years.
It should be remembered that on July 22, 2.7 million vaccines arrived in the country, which will be distributed to each of the jurisdictions gradually to immunize this age group.
In this way, Argentina becomes one of the first countries to expand its vaccination campaign with children under 2 years of age, a population that until now had not been protected against the coronavirus.
In this regard, Minister Carla Vizzoti pointed out that pediatric vaccines are safe and effective for minors, and that including them in the inoculation process will help keep covid-19 cases low.
How is vaccination going nationally?
According to the latest report of the health portfoliodelivered last July 31, To date, 107,823,754 doses had been applied in the country of the coronavirus vaccine.
Of these, 40,881,916 correspond to the initial scheme; 37,698,518 to the second dose; 3,133,494 to the additional dose; while 20,966,625 to the first booster and 5,120,991 doses to the second booster.
