Uruguay launches mass vaccination against Covid

MONTEVIDEO.- Uruguay launch a plan mass vaccination against Covid19, with more than two million doses of Sinovac and Pfizer, with games starting to arrive this week that will be administered in the first place at vaccinators, teachers and other teachers, police and military. Then they will continue with doctors, nurses and adults.

“You are trying to be as fair as possible in this area”, said the president Luis Lacalle Pou by making the announcement and specifying that the decree was established by the scientific advisory committee. “There will be a public opinion campaign to establish what is the mechanism for getting vaccinated”, said the head of state.

Lacalle Pou reported that the plan will start on the weekend with the staff who will be in charge of the vaccination that will be done from Monday March 1 with an order of priority determined by the scientific advisory committee. . “When it touches me and with the vaccine that touches me”, the president responded when asked if he was going to be the first to be vaccinated.

In addition, Lacalle Pou said he has no plans to open borders for Argentines who have properties in Punta del Este and other areas, which is a claim by some tour operators, but the government is considering entry permit for foreigners with a “health passport” have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

After an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers, the president reported that “on the night of the 25th, in the early morning of the 26th, a shipment of 192,000 doses of vacuna Sinovac ‘, that “which from the 15th will be supplemented by 1,558,000 additional doses” of this vaccine.

He added that the arrival of Pfizer / BioNtech vaccines: “From the week of March 8 to the week of April 26, we will receive approximately 460,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, which the environment of two million doses would be completed by March ”.

Asked about the possibility of allowing foreigners to enter, Lacalle Pou was cautious: “We have extended the law which prohibits crowds, they already know that the opening of borders is partial and that there are other measures that are in progress. “

Lacalle Pou said that the vocation of the government is “openness” and that it “has always been in favor of opening and not of closing, the government has always had the vocation of freedom and not of confinement ”. But due to rebound in cases After the partial opening in February, the Uruguayan president ruled out further measures in this regard, although he clarified that the government is working on a health passport which allows entry into the country without quarantining those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 what they accredit antibody test In the blood. “We are going to move towards the opening of borders and activities,” he added.

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