In just two days, Chile vaccinated as much as Argentina in over a month

After the 140 thousand people who left on Wednesday February 3 As the first day of the intensive vaccination operation throughout the Chilean territory, the figures for this Thursday showed the total vaccination in the trans-Andean country 384,996 people, with 12,360 others receiving a second dose, to bring the vaccination percentage to 3.2% of the population.

These numbers are almost equal to those of Argentina: from December 29 to February 3, our country vaccinated 395,562 people, as detailed in the Global Register of Our world in data.

Piñera celebrated the numbers: “historic”

The government of Sebastián Piñera has again called the vaccination operation “historic”, stressing that it was lived “Today we are living a successful 2nd day, with 384,996 people vaccinated, a large deployment in the regions, home vaccinations and the transfer of the elderly to vaccination centers. A great example gave us our elders.

Today, we are living a successful 2nd day, with 384,996 people vaccinated, a large deployment in the regions 🗾, home vaccines 💉 and the transfer of the elderly to vaccination centers 🧓🏽👵🏽. A wonderful example gave us our elders 🙌🏽. If they get vaccinated, #YoMeVacuno pic.twitter.com/4clLQZTJfI

– Government of Chile (@GobiernodeChile) February 5, 2021

Chile has received 4 million vaccines against the coronavirus, mainly from China Sinovac, the second to be approved in Chile after health workers initially received the vaccine produced by Pfizer / Biotench laboratories.

Official information on the portal of the Chilean Ministry of Health also corroborated the remarkable figures reached this Thursday, January 4:

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“These are wonderful days for the country, we are happy and grateful to the health staff,” said Chile’s Health Minister Enrique Paris, who again stressed as he did on Wednesday “The great example that the elderly set” by showing the vast majority in favor and grateful for the vaccination process.

This Wednesday, the photo that was released at the launch of the intensive operation was of President Piñera leading to Futrono, in the center of the country, the launch of the campaign in the company of Ernestina Godoy, 94, the first to receive one dose of the vaccine.

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“After eleven months of painful pandemic periods, we have started mass vaccination across the country to protect our compatriots from COVID-19”says Piñera to La Tercera newspaper.

The plan aims to vaccinate around five million Chileans by the end of March 2021, a number that includes the neighboring country’s at-risk population, and ten million additional citizens reached by the end of June. Minister Paris stressed that some nine million doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine will arrive in the country before the first week of March.

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