In San Martin de Porresin the vaccination center located in the zonal park Mayta Capac, RPP found today that, during the early hours of the morning, there were no presence of minors between 5 and 11 years of age to receive the first and second doses of the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine.
In that place, from 7 in the morning, 3 queues were registered, with 5 to 10 people, waiting to enter the vaccination center. In the lines, there were certainly some minors, but none under 11 years of age, which is the age group for which Pfizer’s pediatric vaccines are intended. they expire today.
vaccines to expire
Last Thursday, the Comptroller General of the Republic warned that more than one million 40 thousand doses of the pediatric vaccine of that laboratory won this saturday april 30. Its expiration, without being applied, would represent a significant affectation of the resources of the State.
Of this figure, the largest amounts of doses are located in Arequipa (119’510 doses), Puno (88’620 doses), Lambayeque (73’420 doses) and Lima Region (62’560 doses).
Also, through a statement, the control body warned of a “downward trend” in the application of the pediatric vaccine for both the first and second doses. Thus, the daily average of vaccinated, in the week of April 11, with the first dose would be 5,157 children, while, for the second dose, it is 10,884.
Patricia Suarezdeputy manager of health control of the Comptroller’s Office, told RPP that, as of April 28, more than 8,000 AstraZeneca vaccines had already expired.
“We report that as of April 28 they expired 8,530 vaccines from AstraZeneca. Now we are going to wait for what happens with other vaccines and hopefully they can all be used and we do not get to lose them, we will still enter with a later control, “he said.
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