Coronavirus in Argentina: vaccination rate with second dose increased by 82% over the past week

With the short-term objective of stopping the advance of the Delta variant, Over the past week, the average number of applications of the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine has increased significantly in Argentina.. A promising statistic while a large part of the population is still waiting to complete their vaccination program.

According to Infobae data unitLast week, an average of 162,083 second daily doses were placed. If we compare this number with the 88,888 second daily doses applied on average during the previous seven days, we conclude that there was an increase of 82%.

In any case, there is still a long way to go. Until yesterday, 54.93% of Argentina’s population, or 25,161,679 people, received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. However, only 7,130,429 people, 15.57%, were those who had already completed the immunization schedule.

That is to say, in Argentina there are still 18,031,250 people who have already started the inoculation process and have not yet received the second dose.

It is possible to compare the Argentine scenario of July, even without community circulation with the Delta variant, with the same period in a country like the United Kingdom, where the Delta variant has established itself for months as the main contagion variant. and has already moved almost completely to the previous ones. Yes the results speak for themselves.

According to figures published by Our world in data, in July, and with the Delta as the main variant of contagions, The UK has only recorded 1,545 deaths, nearly ten times less than the deaths reported in the same month in Argentina.

And when checking the inoculation process, the evidence for the effectiveness of vaccines is indisputable: 69% of the UK population has already started their vaccination process and 56.2 percent have already received both doses of their vaccines.

This is why the number of infections from the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK has increased compared to previous waves, but the statistics of hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 have been reviewed in very small numbers.

Returning to the vaccination rate in Argentina, the increase in the inoculation rate of the first dose, unlike what happened with the second dose, decreases.

During the past week, 188,652 first doses per day were placed on average, while in the previous week, 261,072 daily doses had been applied on average. That is to say, the inoculation rate of the first dose decreased by 28%.

This statistic will likely change in the next few days, since, as expected Infobae, today Beginning of vaccination of adolescents with co-morbidities aged 12 to 17 years. According to the data available to them at the Ministry of Health, the total number of boys in this band is close to 900,000, and they expect to vaccinate them in a very short time. All will be inoculated with the Moderna doses, which have been donated by the United States.

Shifts are already assigned and doses are available. 1,800,000 doses have been reserved, out of a total of 3,500,000 available to the national government, to complete the immunization schedule with an interval of 28 days.

In the province of Buenos Aires, 100,000 teams have been granted and 153 vaccinations will be available for requests. So far, there are 117,460 young people enrolled with comorbidities and 559,887 without any type of pre-existing disease. There are a total of 677,347 registrants.

In the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, 9,400 teams have been given to be vaccinated, starting tomorrow at 9 a.m., in four centers: La Rural, the San Lorenzo club, Costa Salguero and Parque Roca.

In some provinces, such as Tucumán and Neuquén, vaccination of minors with co-morbidities has already started on Monday. In all, 2,335 adolescents between 12 and 17 years old have already been vaccinated.

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