from tomorrow, they are educating adolescents between 12 and 17 years old

The adolescents between 12 and 17 years old without risk factors Residents of the city will be able to register to be vaccinated from this Tuesday at 12 p.m., which was confirmed by sources from the government of Buenos Aires, which decided modify strategy, which, until last week, prioritized the completion of the two doses of the over 18 before starting with the minors.

What change? The definition came after a meeting on Monday of the Federal Health Council, which brings together ministers from all jurisdictions in the country, where the Nation’s Ministry of Health, which had already recommended using doses of Pfizer in teens, confirmed the arrival of vaccines for this week.

As indicated, the distribution of doses of AstraZeneca and Sputnik V Component 2. The City has received 56,600 vaccines from the English laboratory and 36,000 from the Russian laboratory, which allows progress to complete the schedules in the surrounding area. 420,000 people while waiting to complete diets for those over 18.

Some 300,000 porteños have the interval of 60 days expired for the two vaccinators, according to the information consulted Bugle. Of these people, about 60% are waiting for component 2 of Sputnik V and the rest AstraZeneca.

Until last Friday, Buenos Aires Minister of Health Fernán Quirós maintained that the city’s forecast was to start with minors without risk factors after finishing with those over 18, which is planned for “The rest of September and the first week of October”. This plan has not been changed, but the entry of more vaccines has meant that the conditions have been changed with the minors and the registration has been brought forward for this Tuesday.

At the Cofesa meeting, which takes place between this Monday and Tuesday in Mar del Plata, the Minister of National Health, Carla Vizzotti, indicated that this week they would arrive
5,974,390 doses.

According to the official, there will be 2,490,000 from AstraZeneca, whose active ingredient was produced in Argentina; 549,600 others from the same laboratory, from a donation from Canada; 1,144,000 from Sinopharm; 160,290 to Pfizer; and 1,630,500 of Sputnik-V component 2 packaged by the Richmond laboratory in Argentina.

To the City, according to the distribution established so far, according to the population, it is between 6% and 7%. For this reason, from the Pfizer batch, to start vaccinating adolescents, they correspond to a few 11,000 doses. So far, the capital has received 16,000, which it has used to carry out projects started with AstraZeneca.

The Buenos Aires government will also receive some 210,000 vaccines from AstraZeneca, 80,000 from Sinopharm and 114,000 from Sputnik V, Component 2, which are said to be close to completing the more than 400,000 pending schedules and reaching 70% of the vaccinated population at two doses, a figure with which, according to experts and according to testimonies from other countries, it was possible to attenuate the effects of the Delta variant, with decreases in severe cases and in contagion curves.

Regarding Pfizer, between October and November Larger lots are expected to enter, since the agreement signed by the national government stipulates 20 million doses, with which the City could complete the vaccination of adolescents before the end of the year. According to figures from the Statistics and Census Department, there are 360,000 adolescents aged 10 to 19.

According to official figures, 2,307,175 porteños have a dose of some of the authorized vaccines. For its part, 1,851,400 completed vaccination with the second.

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