Uruguay becomes first Latin American country to immunize children

The biological that the miners will receive will be that of Pzifer, the only one approved in Uruguay, following the model of United States and the European Union (EU), To inoculate this group, which moreover will not have to wait as long between the two applications necessary to obtain immunity against the coronavirus, but will only have to spend 28 days between the first and the second dose.

Uruguay is making progress in vaccinating under-18s with a view to resuming face-to-face lessons after the winter holidays -July-. This age group, from 12 to 17 years, in Uruguay is made up of about 290,000 young people, and until Monday 150,000 people have requested an appointment for the vaccination, who began to receive the injection on Wednesday. .

According to the latest report from health authorities, the country has so far accumulated 322,978 Covid-19 infections, of which 283,397 have recovered and 4,749 have died.