The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz Gomez, pointed out that, although in the last two weeks the vaccination plan against covid-19 has increased, they still persist rethos for December.
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“The last two weeks have been the best weeks in number of doses applied throughout the entire National Vaccination Plan. This indicates that we had a large population without vaccination, and it also indicates that the requirement of the vaccination card in places of leisure and places with crowds has made people attend the vaccinationRuiz said.
According to the head of the Health portfolio the requirement of the license allows closing the gap and “we will be able to achieve 70% vaccination coverage with first doses”. In addition, the goal of 55 million doses applied and the 2 million children from 3 to 11 years vaccinated were exceeded. In the country, one million booster vaccines have already been exceeded.
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“Much work remains to be done, but the effort these days, particularly in December, will be the application of second doses. We have a differential between the first and second of approximately 11 million vaccines, this is because November has been successful in applying the first doses, and it makes us have a differential so that, when the 28 days are fulfilled, we apply the second doses”, He detailed.
According to the minister, December will not be an easy month: “HThere are holidays, parties and the second doses should be applied. We should vaccinate 90% of the Colombian population with at least one dose by December, that is an important goal to reduce the risks that we have of greater contagion during this month”.
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Ruiz recalled that in Colombia “We also have a predominance of the delta variant over the mu variant, which generates a strong pressure on the unvaccinated; as well as increasingly open borders and in Venezuela, in particular, the positivity index is higher“, Held.
About the new strategies in the vaccination of migrant population, A decree is projected that was submitted to public consultation: “We began to open vaccination in non-resident population of Colombia that comes from Venezuela, and the expectation is to have vaccination tables directly at the border.”
Finally, he stated that “here the call to all is not to lower your guard, to continue vaccinating”. And, additionally, he asked the IPS, health secretaries and control bodies give all the guarantees: “A person who goes to the vaccine and we return it, without the dose, it will be much more difficult the next opportunity to capture it to vaccinate it”.
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