Approximately 53,524 doses of seasonal influenza vaccines have been applied in the country so far, with the population over the age of 65 being the most immunized, with over 12,000 doses applied in this population group.
This group is followed by health workers with more than seven thousand doses applied in the last week, according to the data on vaccinated people from the Provincial and Health Area Directorates received from the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI).
Out of the total number of vaccinated persons registered up to yesterday, 40,763 doses had been administered in the adult population and 11,259 in children.
Vaccination against seasonal influenza A (H1N1), A (H3N2) and type B began to be applied in the country on 10 October with a day started at the San Francisco de Asís nursing home and the vaccine was Is available in the more than 1,400 existing fixed vaccination places and in tents installed in maternity hospitals and in the provincial and health area directorates.
To cover the population at greatest risk, which are the elderly, children under two, pregnant women, health workers and people with underlying diseases, the country has 475,000 doses in the public sector that are applied free of charge.
The high incidence of patients suffering from respiratory processes, in particular flu, led the country to issue an epidemiological surveillance alert at the beginning of last October.
Of the 475,000 doses of influenza received by the Ministry of Public Health, through the Directorate of Immunopreventable Vaccines (DIV), approximately 350,000 are expected to be applied to the elderly, pregnant women, health workers and patients with underlying diseases, and the remaining 125,000 to children from six months to two years old,
The EPI report details that 48,430 doses of seasonal influenza vaccines had been applied as of October 31, most in the adult population.
Among adults aged 50 to 64, 4,405 doses had been applied; in men aged 10 to 49, approximately 4,000 doses; in women of childbearing age over 5,000 doses and in pregnant women, 4,753.
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1,700 doses.
In children aged six to 11 months, approximately 1,700 doses have been applied; among those from one year to 23 months, over 2,000 doses and in those from two to four years, they exceed 1,400 doses.
On the subject, the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Rivera, highlighted the reception that the flu vaccine has had among the population and asked pregnant women to continue vaccinating themselves against the virus, since they are among the highest risk groups. . complications.
