Xalapa, Ver.-The delegate of the federal welfare programs, Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevaraannounced that this Monday June 6 reinforcement will be applied Pfizer vaccine to those under 12 to 14 years old.
interviewed in the omega gymrefers that the application of the dose will be carried out only one day for the municipalities of Xalapa, Veracruz, Boca del Río, Córdoba, Orizaba, Poza Rica and Coatzacoalcos.
However, they will assess whether it is necessary to open another day for the application of the dose for this sector of the population.
The immunization process will start at 8:00 in the morning and until the last person leaves.
Huerta Ladrón de Guevara comments that in the seven venues there will also be AstraZeneca vaccine for those over 60 years of age, for their reinforcements or in the case of those who have never put it on.
He asserted that the application of the reinforcement will be made in 60 municipalities, in which they estimate to apply more than 120 thousand doses to children between 12 and 14 years old.
So that in the week they will announce the municipalities where the vaccine will continue to be given to that sector of the population.
On the other hand, rules out that there is a risk or emergency due to diseases such as monkeypox or acute childhood hepatitis; however, the health emergency due to Covid-19 does remain.
“I understand that there has been only one case in the country (of smallpox), Mexico, like all countries, has a very strong, successful epidemiological coverage, we do not lower our guard, but it is not a pandemic or something that is not worrying enough to take an emergency circumstance, the health emergency due to Covid is still ongoing, it is not over because, although it is an endemic phase, it has a level of risk,” he said.
Regarding the cases of childhood hepatitis, he states that there is international monitoring, but “it is not something that is coming with difficulties.”
He refers that the concern of the government of the Republic is to generate a health system for the population with which free doctors and medicines are offered, from the takeoff of the IMSS-Wellness, a program in which Veracruz participates.
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“A broad coverage that guarantees doctors seven days a week, at three times, specialists, medicines, medical infrastructure, already in Nayarit it is very advanced, in Colima, in Sonora, Veracruz signed the federalization of this system and work is underway, in Veracruz there is already a diagnosis when it starts you will be informed”, he expresses.
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