Thousands of people They crowd this Tuesday at the doors of the vaccination centers of different cities of Chile to inoculate with fourth dose of the vaccine against covid-19 before new restrictions come into force for those who do not have the complete guideline.
Lines are especially long in the capital, where eight of the country’s 19 million people live. Chile will suspend from June 1 all those over 18 years of age who do not have the fourth dose the so-called “mobility pass”, that allows entry to any closed establishment and attendance at massive events.
“The vaccine is safe. I invite the 1.8 million people who do not yet have the fourth dose to be vaccinated (…) and that 6% who have not yet received the primary scheme,” the minister said at a press conference. of Health, Begoña Yarza.
According to the Ministry of Health, to date 6.9 million fourth doses have been applied to people over 18 years of age, of which more than 112,000 were administered on Monday.
After a spike in infections in February caused by the omicron variant, which raised daily infections to levels never seen in a pandemic in Chile, above 40,000, the pandemic stabilized, although In recent days, infections have risen again.
“We continue to observe a sustained rise in cases, this week we observed an increase of 30%, with an average of 6,458 cases per day in the last 7 days and an average of 4,967 in the previous 7 days,” said the Undersecretary of Health. Public, Cristobal Cuadrado.
Health authorities reported that 3,406 new cases and five deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the total balance since the beginning of the pandemic to 3.7 million infections and 57,892 deaths.
Patients admitted to intensive care units, however, continue to decline and now barely reach 150, most of them without the full vaccination schedule.
Chile stopped requiring in mid-April the mandatory use of a mask outdoors, as well as vaccination against covid-19 and the performance of a PCR test for foreigners entering the country.
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