Uruguay: President Luis Lacalle Pou applied the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

Luis Lacalle Pou, the president of Uruguay, said on Saturday that a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine had been applied.

“Third dose! Once again, thank you to the entire vaccination team in our country. We are very proud of you. #UruguaySeVacuna“, reported his Twitter account in a post with two photographs of when he received the injection and with the medical staff who received him at the Circulo Católico de Obreros del Uruguay in Montevideo.

As the local press reports, The president applied a dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday, after injecting the two components of the Sinovac vaccine on March 29 and April 26.

According to figures from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) on Friday afternoon, 163,272 people were vaccinated with just the first dose, while 2,493,578 people (70.38% of the population) have already completed the vaccination schedule of Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinovac, Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca and American Pfizer.

Likewise, the MSP reported that 324,727 people have already received the third dose according to the plan announced by this organization last week for those who – after being immunized with Coronavac or AstraZeneca – choose to receive a third dose, in this case of Pfizer.

On the other hand, the Uruguayan government published this Saturday the decree of Partial reopening of borders from September 1, when foreigners who have property in the country can enter proof of ownership by notary or affidavit.

The decree also explains that those who enter the country protected by this new exception they must present a negative PCR test and, on the seventh day of your stay in Uruguay, they will have to accredit a new negative test. In both cases, the analyzes must be paid for by each interested party.

In addition, upon entering Uruguay, at border crossings, people will receive a form, where they have to enter their personal data and prove the ownership they own. And right there must present their vaccination certificate, either in single dose or in two doses, depending on the laboratory which administered the vaccines approved in their country of origin.

The decree added that this vaccination must have been “in the last six months prior to dispatch or arrival in the country and the respective waiting periods have been observed to obtain effective immunity”.

Uruguay added 84 new cases this Friday in 6,584 analyzes, while registering a deceased with a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as evidenced by its daily report by the National Emergency System (Sinae).

The only death of the day is that of a 47-year-old woman from Rocha County and, thus, the death toll from the disease has reached 6,026 since March 13, 2020, when the health emergency was declared in the South American country.

Uruguay has added, since the start of the crisis, 384,531 cases of COVID-19, including 1,175 people with the disease, including 10 admitted to intensive treatment centers (ICS).

The South American country remains in the yellow zone of the Harvard index, which cumulates the weekly average of new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, with a record of 2.88. Of the 19 departments of the country, five of them are in the green zone: Río Negro (west), Tacuarembó (north-east), Durazno (center), Florida (center) and Flores (south-west) while the others are yellow.

With information from the EFE

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