The Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, announced that, as of December 10, the Complete vaccination against Covid-19 will be free for all Buenos Aires citizens from the age of 3.
“There must be a great social movement for universal vaccination,” the provincial president summoned in front of what he described as “a situation of risk again” in a context of new waves of contagion in Europe and the appearance of Omicron variant.
In this sense, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolas Kreplak, announced earlier the shipment of 100,000 new vaccination shifts, to give third doses, and described as “really worrying” the possibility that the new variant is more contagious, for which he called to continue with the vaccination plan: “It is the key to continue with the level of openness that we have “.
“It is an act of irresponsibility not to get vaccinated. Today in the world there is talk of the pandemic of the unvaccinated, “Kicillof highlighted during the ceremony in which he announced the free vaccination of the first dose from tomorrow and full free vaccination from December 10, for the entire population from 3 years. “The only requirement is to be from Buenos Aires,” said Kicillof.
In Buenos Aires territory, 14 million people are already vaccinated with the first dose (82% of the province’s population) and 12 million with the second dose. “We aim for a universal vaccination,” said the president when making the announcements, where he also made the official booster dose campaign for those over 50 who are immunosuppressed or have received Sinopharm doses, and for all health personnel.
The Buenos Aires governor summoned all of society to get involved in the “universal” campaign. “We have the vaccine, we need to increase awareness and solidarity,” he called.
One hundred thousand new vaccination shifts
“There is no one in our country who is not recommending giving vaccines for the entire population, from the age of three,” Kreplak said at the event together with Kicillof to reinforce the idea of the need to advance a universal campaign to prevent that there is a new wave of cases that forces the resumption of movement restriction measures. Earlier, the head of the health portfolio announced on social networks the sending of 99,996 new shifts for people over 50 years old – who are immunosuppressed or have received the dose of Sinopharm – and health personnel.
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“We continue with the vaccination campaign that is why 99,996 shifts for booster doses are already being sent. Check your email, the page or the application!”, The official wrote on his Twitter account.
The Ministry of Health of the province stated yesterday that More than 11 and a half million Buenos Aires have already received two doses of the vaccine against Covid-19, of which 94% correspond to people over 60 years of age.
In total, 11,526,718 people have the complete vaccination scheme and 11,148,423 have the initial scheme.
As for the third dose, 639,058 people have already been vaccinated and in that sense, it was reported that health personnel are already being vaccinated with a third booster dose. Among people aged 18 to 59 years, 79% are immunized with the two doses, which represents a total of 6,282,656.
Buenos Aires health pass
“In Europe there are many cases, it is a serious danger. And there is a new variant (Ómicron) that is under study, but has been shown to be more contagious than the Delta variant, already very feared and very present in our country, “Kreplak warned during the event with Kicillof.
The minister highlighted the preventive measures that were taken in the last hours regarding the closure of air borders with southern Africa and isolation for people who have been in that area.
Although he did not speak about the prompt implementation of a “health pass” during the event, he announced that in the province it is being analyzed to launch a pass not only for massive events or closed events with a large amount of capacity, such as Minister Carla Vizzotti announced on Friday, but also reach workplaces and public transportation.
“It is necessary to gain time to vaccinate the population and to know a little more what the South African variant is about”, Kreplak assured in dialogue with Rock & Pop radio this morning. “In theory, (the vaccine) may be slightly less effective than other variants. This has been seen, for example, with the Manaus variant and a previous South African variant, “the minister explained.
During the weekend, Kreplak had already indicated that “the decision on the application of a” health pass “, agreed on Friday in the Federal Health Council (Cofesa), was” poorly disseminated in the media “and specified that it deals not only with mass events but also with activities in closed places: public transport, work.
Minister Vizzotti had advanced on Friday that the details for its application had yet to be agreed between the Legal and Technical Secretariat of the Presidency and the provinces, and confirmed that it will be applied through the Cuidar application.
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