Chile to start vaccinating people under 60 without pre-existing diseases after arrival of two million more doses

Sunday March 21 the arrival of a sixth shipment of Chinese vaccines from Sinovac to Chile has been recorded, a total of 2 million doses to use to start this week vaccination of the population under 60 without pre-existing diseases and inoculation of members of polling stations who will participate in the double day of elections in April.

In the middle of high number of contagion and mortality reaching Chile, which border the 7 thousand cases reported daily, the vaccination process is moving forward in the fastest way and, on the instruction of health authorities, the process begins now for those who are patients without pre-existing pathologies and thus join most of the vaccinated population in June 2021.

In this way, according to the Ministry of Health, 13,068,351 vaccines arrived in Chile, mainly from the Sinovac laboratory since the start of the vaccination plan on February 3.

To this new shipment of 2 million new doses, adds an arrival of 153,075 type vaccines and Pfizer-BioNTech, which landed on Thursday March 18.

According to the government, the arrival of sending doses of Sinovac, according to the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, is part of an “understanding agreement” to receive “20 million doses per year for the next three years”. The government’s goal for this year is to reach 35 million vaccines to immunize the target population before the first half of the year, or about 15 million people.

For the moment, the new vaccines that have arrived in the country in recent days will help to continue the vaccination process. For this week, transport and basic services personnel are expected to use one of the 15,000 vaccination centers to receive their first dose against the coronavirus.

This Wednesday, vaccination will also begin for the healthy population between 50 and 59 years old. This week it will be the turn of people aged 57 to 59, while for next week, descending order by age should be maintained to avoid the crowds.

Likewise, this week The vaccination schedule will include from this Monday the inoculation of table vowels between 18 and 56 years old, and support staff for the very important elections, which will take place on April 10 and 11. For this occasion, Chile to go to the polls to elect mayors, councilors, regional governors and 155 conventional voters who will draft a possible new constitution for the country.

Parallel, second dose inoculations will continue for those that match, as well as for latecomers from previous weeks who were unable to complete this vaccination procedure.

In front of the new Chinese ambassador

As the new shipment of Sinovac landed with 2 million new doses this Sunday, He has repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that this arrival was assisted by the new Ambassador of the Republic of China to Chile, Niu Qingbao. The new diplomat replaced his predecessor, Xu Bu, who rose to prominence in the country for to be a character who has not hesitated to offer controversial opinions, and by confronting politicians and intellectuals of all kinds to defend their interests.

Since Xu Bu left the country last year, Niu Qingbao arrived in Chile in February and he does it with an important CV: he is a career diplomat and has held senior positions in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs abroad since the 1990s. He has worked in India and New Zealand. In addition, he was Ambassador to Jamaica and Representative to the International Seabed Authority.

Para Niu Qingbao, Your country has contributed from the start to Chile’s fight against the coronavirus, all this so that “Chile can fight COVID-19 as quickly as possible and restore normal production and order of life,” the ambassador said.

In addition, Niu Qingbao added that “The Chinese government is ready to provide Chile with more vaccines in the future”, but that it will depend “on the production capacity of companies. We will let them know once we have the news ”, commented the diplomat during a press briefing.

New vaccines arrive in Chile

Chilean health authorities have also reported that A next shipment of Sinovac vaccines will arrive in the country during the first half of April. In addition, it has been reported that Procedures for the imminent arrival of the AstraZeneca vaccine are advanced.

“We have already received the letter from Covax, from AztraZeneca to receive approximately 875,000 doses on a scheduled basis.“Said Minister of Health Enrique Paris, adding that” Undersecretary Yáñez is working hard to receive vaccines from Russia and also from CanSino “.

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