This Tuesday, March 22, the first trials of a vaccine against covid-19 that is applied in the nose will begin. It is a treatment developed by the Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise, which seeks to test its doses in at least 3,000 people in Colombia. The analysis of these results could take up to 20 … Read more
The National Government is evaluating endorsing heterologous vaccination schemes in the first two anticovid doses. This would allow, for example, that if someone applied a dose of Sinovacyou could complete your schema with one of Modern. Currently, the guidelines of the Ministry of Health provide that heterologous regimens can only be implemented once the booster … Read more
The pace of anticovid dose application is slowing down in Colombia. In fact, in the vaccination days of the last seven days, less than 180,000 injected anticovid doses have been reported and last Sunday a figure of 81,382 was reported, very low compared to the records of last January, when there were days of up … Read more
The Ministry of Health published the resolution that ended the Mandatory use of masks in open spaces. Although the Minister of Health had indicated that the measure began to apply since last February 23, this March 1 gave legal ground to the decision. In the Resolution 350 of 2022 it was reiterated that all municipalities … Read more
The Moderna pharmaceutical company is ready to produce up to 3,000 million doses of anticovid vaccines in 2022. In other words, enough doses to vaccinate almost one in three people on the entire planet. César Sanz, director of Medical Affairs for Moderna in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, assured that applying a fourth anticovid … Read more
According to the latest data collected by the National Government, 20.6% of the population has received a booster anticovid dose. During the last Unified Command Post carried out by the Ministry of Health, they called the attention of the Territorial Entities to avoid the closure of vaccination points against covid-19. Gerson Bermont, director of Promotion … Read more
Between February, which began the process, and December 2021, 64.6 million doses were administered. 55.4% of the population already has a complete scheme. Historical! Between February 17 and December 31, 2021, an average of 8,502 people were vaccinated every hour in Colombia. This means that 141.7 vaccines were delivered per minute and more than two … Read more
The Ministry of Health reported that 13 departments did not carry out a vaccination session. According to the latest report from vaccination against covid-19, Colombia registered only 14,931 vaccines applied against covid-19 on December 25. Of those injections, 5,674 corresponded to second doses and 1,779 to single doses from the pharmaceutical company Janssen. This digit … Read more
Although the application of anticovid vaccines decreased 26.7% in the last week, the supply of booster doses exceeded the threshold of 2 million. Before the end of the year and with it the deadline for the Government to meet its goal of vaccinating 35.7 million people with complete anticovid schemes, the pace of the National … Read more
President Iván Duque reported that as of December 14, all international travelers over 18 years of age will be required to present their anticovid vaccination card to enter Colombia. Duque pointed out, through his Twitter account, that the decision was made taking into account the recommendations issued by the advisory committee of the Ministry of … Read more