(CRHoy.com) Advances in vaccination coverage against COVID-19 had an impact on the reduction of the severity caused by the virus and the need for hospitalization after contagion among Costa Ricans, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
For the Incident Manager for COVID-19 at PAHO, Sylavain Aldighieri, Costa Rica has shown good achievements in vaccination during the last 8 months.
“It is important to highlight how severity and hospitalization have been reduced, it is a situation related to the increase in the population vaccinated with complete schemes, with so much application of adult and pediatric vaccines. The campaign has advanced at a good pace with high percentages”, he mentioned.
Yes, the health agency suggested accelerating vaccination in the 250 thousand people who have not even applied the first injection yet.
At the cut of this February 21, in our country 8,970,610 anti-COVID-19 doses have been injected. Of these, 4,152,664 correspond to first doses, meanwhile 3,787,890 people have already completed the scheme.
Meanwhile, this Wednesday there is 982 hospitalized patients at national medical centers.
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