Although on July 16 the Ministry of Health had ruled out opening the vaccination against him covid-19 to the entire population, this Wednesday the Executive revealed that it is contemplating that option.
This was announced by the director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre), Víctor Muñoz, who indicated that the Government is studying the possibility of lifting the age restrictions for immunization against the covid-19, but that you must first assess its viability.
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“It is a measure that is being contemplated, is being reviewed depending on the biologicals and also depending on the scheduling and assistance of people to the vaccination process. But yeah, those are the points that are being reviewed right now, “he said.
The official assured that the initiative is already being implemented in about 600 municipalities that have less than 50,000 inhabitants, as the Health Ministry decided to unify the remaining phases of the National Vaccination Plan in these places.
Regarding the announcement of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce to stop the vaccination of private individuals (4,500 companies) with the agreement they had with this entity, he pointed out that “what was being reviewed is that they desisted from doing the purchase procedure since the vaccination speed On the part of the Government, it has been very efficient and they saw that if we are about to open the stage of over 30 years, it did not make much sense for them to invest those resources.
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Víctor Muñoz, director of Dapre
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Faced with the other agreement, the Andi, which brings together about 4,000 companies for this process, said that “an acquisition was made of 2.1 million doses that arrived in the country and were delivered.”
To date, in Colombia they have been applied 24’000.509 doses of biologics against the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, 13’444.225 corresponds to first doses and 8’654.550, to second doses —Pfizer, Sinovac and AstraZeneca— and 1’901,734 single doses
—Janssen—.
In total, with a complete vaccination scheme (single dose and two doses), Colombia reaches 10’556.284 applications.
This Wednesday, the country received 308,880 doses of vaccines from Pfizer; 443,000 from Pfizer will arrive next week and 200,000 doses of Moderna are expected to arrive on July 26, and 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca are expected by the end of the month.
In August, Muñoz assured, they expect to receive 1.9 million doses from Pfizer; 1.8 million Moderna; 1’5 from AstraZeneca and 1 million from Janssen.
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The official pointed out that today the country has bought 74 million doses “which allows us to exceed what was required for vaccination”, this does not include the doses of donation or private.
The Government also sent an invitation for all people who are in the priority age range for vaccination to attend immunization.
Muñoz added that once the goal of 35 million vaccinated Colombians is achieved, “we will be incorporating the numbers of pregnant women, children with comorbidities and we will be reaching a figure slightly higher than 37 million.”
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