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Government has to extend the age range of anticovid vaccination for people over 30 years old

From tomorrow, Wednesday, the health centers and points where the anticovid vaccine is given must expand the age range to those over 30 years old because there is already the number of vaccines to serve this segment of the populationsaid Health Minister Jeyson Auza in an official act.

“HWe have sent instructions to the whole country In order to vaccinate people 30 years of age and older, this situation has also been communicated to each of the directors of the departmental health services, ”said Auza.

The Government received 500 thousand Sinopharm vaccines this Wednesday and proceeded to distribute them, which according to Minister Auza allows to expand the age range that was from 40 years onwards until now. He clarified that all people who are over 30 years old can be vaccinated and it is not limited only to those in the 30 to 39 years range.

According to his explanation, the vaccines were distributed as follows: Santa Cruz 105,600 doses, Cochabamba 88,200, La Paz 70,400, Oruro 52,800, Tarija 52,800, Chuquisaca 52,800, Potosí 35,200, Beni 26,400 and Pando was the department that received 16,000, making a total of 500,200 doses in total.

Despite these figures, the Government does not know until when normality can return because so far 21% of the vaccinable population has been vaccinated, calculated by the government of 7,180,428 people.

Ad It was carried out within the framework of the delivery of checks to third-level hospitals by the Universal Health Insurance (SUS), payment comprised for the second quarter of 2021, said the authority and specified that the amount delivered was Bs 119,426,591 for care in public hospitals.

He also said that oxygen, being considered a medicine, also enters these resources and demanded the subnational governments to guarantee the provision of oxygen to patients who require it. Then he said that as a national government they will continue with the logic of co-responsibility to fight the pandemic.

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