He Ministry of Health (Minsal) confirmed that they have made progress in managing the purchase of a new vaccine against COVID-19.
This is how it was detailed by the Undersecretary of Public Health, Andrea Albagli, who affirmed Once upon a timewhat “eWe are currently advancing in the management of purchasing the new vaccine, because these are also updated as the variant circulating at the community level changes, so we can have the most up-to-date vaccine possible“.
According to what is detailed by the same medium, The negotiations could be resolved in 2024.
This new vaccine will seek to protect the population from strain XBB.1.5, considered the most “transmissible” of Ómicron, according to what is indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
It should be noted that this is part of the decision of a Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac not to install an Innovation and Development Center in the commune of Antofagasta.
Vaccination plan
As for the vaccination plan that reactivated the Minsal against the coronavirus, The authority reported that “what we are doing is calling all those people who one year after having been vaccinated, so that they can come to receive their new boosterin order to once again reinforce this immunological protection that begins to decrease after six months, but continues for a longer period, up to 12 months.”
Who should be vaccinated?
In this way, the groups that must be inoculated correspond to health personnel, people who are between 60 and 80 years old, those with chronic diseases and immunocompromised people.
2023-10-28 12:09:45
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