Uruguay has started coronavirus vaccination campaign for teachers and security forces

Uruguay started vaccinations with the vaccine from Chinese pharmaceutical Sinovac on Monday at a good pace against COVID-19 in different parts of the country and it is expected that in the coming days, all doses that arrived on February 25 will be administered.

With Montevideo as the main location for vaccination, Uruguayans started arriving early in the morning in the 95 centers which are installed in hospitals, public places and even the multi-purpose pavilion Antel Arena.

Although many people visited each vaccination center, the speed of health officials meant that in general there weren’t long lines.

The protocol is extremely strict: the person must arrive, give their information, sign a consent and, once the vaccine has been received, you should wait 15 minutes in a room if you notice any symptoms or side effects.

In addition, doses are controlled by health and police officials, who are in charge of their care and guard at night.

The Hospital de Clínicas is the largest center in the country with 32 vaccination posts and 4,000 people can be vaccinated there per day.

Your director, Alvaro Villar, he told the news agency EFE that the rhythm “is very practical“And the idea is to gradually increase the number of people entering the hospital.

“The truth is that it was possible to vaccinate at the rate that we had planned. The average is that in 15 minutes, four people are vaccinated for each vaccinator“, Held.

Regarding people’s reaction to vaccines, Villar explained that so far only one woman felt bad but this was not caused by the dose of the Sinovac vaccine, called CoronaVac, but because it had fear of needles.

“If I could get vaccinated, I would have already been vaccinated. I believe the role of helping in all of this, like the protective measures, the masks, the distance, the hand washing and now the way to help we have is to get vaccinated. It’s the best we can do for others, ”he concluded.

Vaccination centers opened at 8 a.m. (11 a.m. GMT) to deliver 192,000 doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine to police, army, firefighters, teachers and workers at the Institute for Children and Adolescents (INAU) under 60.

Health workers will start to be vaccinated from March 8, when the first doses of American Pfizer should arrive in Uruguay.

Uruguay has recorded 57,994 infections since March 2020 (7,347 active, including 76 in intensive care) and 608 deaths.

(With information from EFE)

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