In a new health balance with the Covid_19 situation, health authorities reiterated the call to the population to complete their vaccination scheme against Covid-19.
“I would like to highlight the important vaccination process against Covid-19 that is carried out at the national level, which, to date, in the Coquimbo region has administered more than 534 thousand doses,” said the Seremi de Salud, Alejandro Garcia.
Along these lines, the health authority called on the population to “complete their cycle with the second doses. During the next week, the vaccination of lagging patients over 48 years of age will continue and the second doses will be prioritized for people who were inoculated between March 22 and 28. It is essential that people receive their two doses and thus complete their vaccination schedule, since only in this way will they be fully protected against possible serious cases of the disease ”.
At the regional level there are 58 vaccination points, which will continue to administer the doses for the aforementioned groups, that is why the health authority emphasizes the call to program and complete their vaccination schedule with the two corresponding doses.
SANITARY BALANCE
In today’s health report, three new people died from Covid-19 in the region, two from the commune of La Serena and one from Ovalle.
For its part, the detail of cases for today reported, “166 new cases of Coronavirus, 42 from La Serena, 47 from Coquimbo, 03 from Paihuano, 05 from Vicuña, 12 from Illapel, 03 from Canela, 03 from Los Vilos, 07 from Salamanca, 27 from Ovalle, 01 from Combarbalá, 08 from Monte Patria, 02 from Punitaqui, 03 from another region and 03 without notification in the Epivigila System. With this, 29,935 accumulated cases are counted, with 1,150 active infections ”, concluded the Seremi García.
Regarding the balance of the Assistance Network, the director of the Coquimbo Health Service Edgardo González pointed out that “217 people are hospitalized as a result of the coronavirus, of which 104 are seriously ill in the Intensive Care Unit and 91 of them are in need of mechanic ventilation.
In relation to the beds of the Critical Patient Units, today we have 22 units available, of which 10 are from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which are those with mechanical ventilators and 12 Intermediate Treatment Units ”.
Regarding the number of health workers affected by Covid-19, he explained that, both in the direction of the Health Service and in hospitals, 17 workers have tested positive for the virus and 81 are in preventive quarantine, while in Care Primary Health there are 10 positive officials and 33 are in quarantine.
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