11:22 | Tarapoto, sir. 19.
Brigades of the San Martín Regional Health Directorate (Diresa) carry out the application of the bivalent vaccine against covid-19 to health personnel in that region. In this first stage, 7,800 doctors, nurses and other health professionals are expected to be immunized.
The Regional Immunization Coordinator, Karen Loloy Cotrina, indicated that to access this vaccine, health personnel must have the four doses of immunization against covid-19, more than 2 months in advance; Likewise, he urged professionals to have confidence in its effectiveness since it contains two different antigens: one from the original covid-19 strain, detected in Wuhan and the other from the omicron BA variant (BA.4 and BA.5). Both components allow a better immune response against the new covid-19 lineages.
After this application to health personnel, Coverage will be extended to the elderly and people with comorbidity with a second batch of vaccines to be sent by the Ministry of Health.
Natalia Vargas, infectious disease specialist at the National Institute of Healthindicated that this new type of vaccines contain two messenger RNA (mRNA) components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The first is against the original virus that was identified in Wuhan, China, in 2019, and the other is a common mRNA component between the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the omicron variant, explained the specialist.
The bivalent vaccine will not only prevent hospitalizations, admission to intensive care units and deaths, but it could also stop the transmission of the disease or asymptomatic infection.
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Published: 1/19/2023
