The national government assured that before the appearance of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the best strategy is “complete the vaccination schedule to reduce transmission in the country”, where more than 29 million Argentines, which is equivalent to 65% of the population, have already received at least two doses and another 7 million must reach the same level of immunity.
“Completing the vaccination schedules, advancing with the immunization of children, adolescents and reinforcement in risk groups is key to maintaining this collective achievement,” said the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, Juan Manzur in statements to Télam.
The statements of the Chief of Staff are in line with the statements of the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, who told the press that “what reduces the transmission and the impact of the coronavirus is that the highest percentage of the population has the two doses of vaccines ”.
Government sources indicated that “the objective set” from the Executive “is to complete the vaccination schedules and advance with the reinforcements as the main axis of the virus containment strategy to reach the best prepared by autumn.”
“Especially from the outbreak of contagions that is being experienced in part of the world and which led to the decision taken in several countries to impose new restrictions on the mobility of their citizens,” said the spokesmen.
“Completing vaccination schedules, advancing with the immunization of children, adolescents and reinforcement in risk groups is key to maintaining this collective achievement”Juan Manzur
For the government, complete vaccination “is an essential measure to maintain the levels of openness achieved and sustain the growth of economic activity registered so far in 2021.”
In this sense, it was recorded that the Monthly Estimator of Economic Activity (EMAE), reported days ago by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), indicated that “in September the country had a positive variation of 11.6% with respect to to the same month of 2020 “.
For its part, the preliminary evaluation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2021 showed an increase of 17.9% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Vizzotti mentioned that, in addition to achieving full vaccination and receiving reinforcements, Argentines “must maintain the care provided from the beginning of the pandemic: wear a mask and, in the presence of a symptom compatible with the coronavirus, isolate and test themselves in the indicated health centers “.
In Argentina, “65% of Argentine children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 17 received the first dose of the vaccine in just over a month, although the health strategy continues to reach the remaining 35% of the minor population. 18 years old, “they highlighted from the Executive Power.
In the world, the level of vaccination with at least one dose that Argentina has, and that reaches 80% of its population, exceeds on average that of South America (72%), the European Union (70%) and North America (64 %).
In addition, the country is above the average of countries with upper middle income (75%) and high income (74%), and according to official data, there is 8% of the population of people over 18 years of age who have not started yet. your vaccination.
“We hope that December will be the month to complete the vaccination schedule,” Vizzotti said.
In recent days the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its concern about the appearance of the variant called Omicron worldwide and did so on the basis of the advice of the Technical Group on Virus Evolution that the international organization has.
The new variant, the WHO experts explained, emerged “in South Africa and has so far caused a detrimental change in the epidemiology” of the coronavirus.
The Omicron, they added from the WHO, “is advancing at a remarkable speed: the first cases were detected on November 9 and were officially notified on the 24th of this month.”
The Omicron “is a new variant that is identified in the countries of Africa, but there is a possibility that it is in other countries,” said Vizzotti.
The Minister of Health explained that, although the information available about the new variant of the virus is still scarce, the Omicron has 32 mutations, “more than the variants that have been worrying the world until now,” including the Delta.
Argentina once again surpassed the barrier of 2,000 daily infections after two months below that statistic, and in the face of this situation, Vizzotti yesterday announced a series of measures, including the implementation of “a health pass to be able to attend massive events and events held in closed spaces “.
This authorization, which will take effect next December, will be granted through the Care application and will reach people over 13 years of age who have a full vaccination schedule at least 14 days before processing the permit.
The measure, explained Vizzotti, seeks “that those who delayed their schedule have the stimulus to perceive the importance of completing the vaccination” with two doses.
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