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Medellín suspends application of booster dose against covid


The measure will be taken until the arrival of new batches. Minors and pregnant women will continue to be vaccinated, since there are stocks for these populations.

Starting this Friday, January 21, and until the arrival of new batches of vaccines, theThe capital of Antioquia will not apply a booster dose at any of its points; This is in accordance with the prioritization of the Municipal Vaccination Plan, reported the Medellín Mayor’s Office.

“It is important that you please inform your loved ones that all people who have completed four months from their last dose for now they will not be able to be vaccinated, we are doing the necessary administrative procedures, once the Government of Antioquia gives us new doses, we will be informing in a timely manner”, said the Undersecretary of Public Health, Milena Lopera.

Yes indeed, Lopera indicated that the first and second doses can be accessed at the 57 vaccination points public, massive, private and extramural enabled.

What’s more, in Medellin there are still biologicals for minors between the ages of 3 and 17 and women in the gestation stage and the 40th week of postpartum, for this reason they will continue to be applied to this population group.

Nowadays In the capital of Antioquia there are 111,093 biologics, 42,771 for first doses and 68,771 to complete vaccination schedules.

4,172,280 doses have been applied in the city, which according to the mayor’s office is equivalent to 95.1% execution of the local vaccination plan. Of these, 1,928,122 are from the first dose, 1,528,558 from the second, and 370,835 from the third dose. For now, 1,873,323 people from Medellín have their complete scheme.

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