The Bogotá Ministry of Health reported that this Saturday, April 16, it enabled 14 vaccination points against covid-19, which will be providing their service from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The entity reminded people that, to receive the biological, they must present their identity document and vaccination card, in case they need to complete the scheme or receive the booster dose. Minors must attend in the company of their mother, father or legal representative.
Below is the list of vaccination points against covid-19 enabled this Saturday:
Corferias, South Terminal, Tibabuyes Coliseum, El Tunal Coliseum Tent, Galerias Shopping Center, El Tunal Shopping Center, Altavista Shopping Center, Paseo Villa del Río Shopping Center and Major Shopping Centeramong others.
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Booster dose in adolescents
The District Secretary of Health also reported that all adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 who have completed their vaccination schedule against covid-19 four months ago or more can go to the immunization points to receive their booster dose.
According to the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, people within this age range can only receive the booster with the Pfizer laboratory vaccine. The Secretariat reported that the city has sufficient availability of biologicals from that pharmaceutical company for the vaccination of the Bogota population.
It was also emphatic and sent an important message to the public that for the application of the booster against covid-19, adolescents must not have received regular vaccinations during the last 14 days.
The entity added that, in accordance with the modifications to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, for the application of second doses of vaccines against covid-19, the brands of the vaccines can be combined, only in the case of people 18 years and over.
It is important to mention that children between three and eleven years of age can only receive the Sinovac laboratory vaccine for the first and second doses. For those of legal age, the supply of the second doses is as follows, according to the availability of biologicals at the immunization points.
In Colombia there are almost no deaths from covid-19
Deaths from covid-19 in Colombia reached the levels recorded in the first days of the pandemic in the country, in March 2020.
According to information from the Ministry of Health, this Good Friday the statistics show a mortality attributed to causes related to the coronavirus of three peoplea figure that was recorded on March 25, 2020, after the first positive case of a person attacked by the virus that brought humanity to its knees was confirmed on the 6th of that same month, leading most nations to adopt drastic measures such as confinement.
In colombia, after two years of difficult times brought by the health emergencyboth in terms of loss of human life and damage to the economy, another story is being told today.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, on this April 15 there were 205 new cases of contagion, with which the country accumulates a total of 6,089,381 people affected by the virus in everything that the country has been plunged into. the pandemic.
Active cases currently amount to 3,327a figure that is already comparable to the effects that any endemic disease can cause.
The total deaths in the more than two years of health emergency add up to 139,741 people.
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