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New vaccination day against covid-19 is fulfilled in Quito

This Sunday, December 19, 2021, a moderate number of people attended the University of the Americas (UDLA-Granados), to receive the dose against the covid-19.

Janet Yar, responsable Zonal de Health SurveillanceHe pointed out that the projection is to vaccinate about 430 people in this place during this day.

This is the second day of the program ‘Vaccination‘, which is made up of brigades and vaccination points. Doses of Pfizer, Cansino, Sinovac and AstraZeneca.

The kids older than 5 years can receive the first and second doses. Those over 18 years of age will be inoculated with the booster doses.

Pfizer and Sinovac are being placed as second doses and of reinforcement AstraZeneca.

The University of the Americas (UDLA-Granados) was one of the vaccination centers during the weekend. Photo: Julio Estrella / El Comercio

In the case of people with diseases immunosuppressed They are given the homologous vaccine to the one they have had either Pfizer or Sinovac, and for this they must present a certificate from the treating doctor or specialist. Children from 5 to 11 years old will be inoculated with Sinovac; Pfizer’s vaccine is intended for adolescents 12 to 17 years of age.

In the north of the city, other vaccination points were also set up, such as the Iñaquito Metropolitan Sports Center, Coliseum of the Central University of Ecuador, Carcelén Terrestrial Terminal, Condado Shopping Mall, Alfonso del Hierro Massive Center and Pacto Health Center.

In the south of the capital, people can go to the Quicentro Sur Shopping Center, Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe and the El Recreo Shopping Center. In the colonial case, you can go to the Centro Histórico Health Center. In the Valleys, people have the option of getting vaccinated at the El Tingo Health Center, San Gabriel El Tingo Church or the Lumbisí Health Center.

People who went to the UDLA vaccination center feel safer to avoid contagion by covid-19 in their work and also with their family members. “I received the third dose of AztraZeneca I feel safer now and I hope that people go to get vaccinated, “she said. Tinafy Aguilar, a 23-year-old girl.

Segundo Ramírez is 43 years old and received the third dose of AztraZeneca. “I am a worker and that way I feel calmer because we are several colleagues who work together.”

Another testimony is that of Antonia Mitjavila, a Spanish resident in Ecuador. “I was inoculated with the third dose of Pfizer, I feel perfect and safer, it is also important to take care against the new variant Omicron”.

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