The Government claims to have the insured stock to continue with the vaccination process against covid-19, in the event that a fifth dose is required.
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The Undersecretary for International Economic Relations, José Miguel Ahumada, assured that our country is assured of the vaccine stock for a possible fifth dose.
As confirmed by the Ministry of Health, This Wednesday, a new batch of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 arrived in the country, consisting of 499,200 doses from the Moderna laboratory.
With this shipment, the 57 million 484 thousand doses of vaccines against covid-19 entered Chile are exceeded, which allow the vaccination plan to continue, highlights the agency.
In this regard, Undersecretary Ahumada assured that his portfolio has various contract structures with different laboratories, to keep open the possibility of acquiring different types of vaccines and doses, at the rate set by the health authority.
“The current situation we have with the contracts allows us to guarantee different doses that the Minsal proposes to us, such as, for example, a possible fifth dose,” he said.
The Government even maintains dialogues with other countries to send vaccines, according to what is published Emol.
“We are precisely establishing exchanges of positions, opinions with different countries to see the possibility and the needs that different nations also have, regarding the issue of the pandemic. We are working on it and I think that when we have clarity we will point it out, ”she said.
For his part, the Metropolitan Health Seremi, Gonzalo Soto, He called on the population to get vaccinated, ruling out a possible lack of stock.
“We have stock of vaccines available in the 52 communes of the Metropolitan Region. There are more than 150 access points to get vaccinated. The call is to be able to get vaccinated with Moderna, which is a reliable and safe vaccine to protect us in the winter,” she asserted.
“Give the public peace of mind that we are going to have an immunization plan prepared at different points in the Metropolitan Region,” concluded the authority.
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