Vaccine | COVID-19: young people aged 25 and over will be vaccinated from Monday, September 13 nndc | PERU

After completing the eighth vaccination session, the Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, announced that from Monday, September 13, the vaccination against the coronavirus (COVID-19) will begin for people 25 years of age and over.

From Villa El Salvador, the cabinet member indicated that this measure is part of the expansion of the immunization of age groups in the face of a probable arrival of the third wave of COVID-19.

“Unfortunately, we cannot rule out a third wave in our country, international experience and that of countries, such as Colombia, Argentina, Chile, indicate that a third wave has a very high possibility of appearing in our country.”, He expressed.

“In fact, although the cases do not grow exponentially, abruptly and rapidly, however, there is a slight increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in our country, and also in the number of Delta cases, where we are already in 399 cases of this variant, and also of the Mu variant, although the Delta variant is the one that presents, specifically, the highest level of contagion and aggressiveness “he added.