Vaccination against COVID-19 of the elderly at CDMX: users received an SMS with their appointment

In Mexico, the COVID-19 vaccination for the elderly will begin this Monday, February 15. For him, Some people in this sector have been contacted by the federal government to go to the immunization cell that corresponds to the municipality in which they reside.

According to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, those who have registered in the 333 most remote municipalities will be the first to receive the antigen produced by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.

“All seniors in these remote municipalities will be vaccinated, so progress will be made with other municipalities in the 32 states until all seniors are vaccinated – more than 15 million adults over 60 years old. , We want 15,717,170 adults over 60 to be vaccinated by mid-April, with this an 80% reduction in COVID deaths is guaranteed, ”the president said at a morning press conference.

In Mexico City, the municipalities that will receive the vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus are Cuajimalpa, Magdalena Contreras and Milpa Alta. For this reason, social media users said they were summoned to attend the antigen request.

One of them is journalist Sergio Aguayo, who announced that this Monday he will be immune to the COVID-19 disease. “Tomorrow I have to get vaccinated because I live in Magdalena Contreras. I hope everything will go well. I will tell you. I’m nervous but happy “the communicator said on his Twitter account.

For her part, the television host Maca Carriedo reported that her parents were summoned to receive the vaccine by a message from the federal government.

Am I fucking telling you something? Messages are starting to arrive from @G GobiernoMX citing the vaccination. My parents were already mentioned

“And they have been summoned for tomorrow”added.

To this message, other netizens responded, noting that they had also been contacted by the administration headed by President López Obrador. “My mother too and now she doesn’t want to go anymore !!!!!!!!”wrote @ORTEGALEE. “Siiiiiiiiiiii I’m the same with my father”replied @lupsvargas

User @ legomez9 expressed on Twitter his enthusiasm for being vaccinated against the virus, pointing out that he and his wife had been summoned to receive the antigen on Monday.

My wife and I already have an appointment tomorrow for the vaccine in Magdalena Contreras. We are very happy to be so privileged and we want it to be everyone’s turn soon, without political or ideological distinctions.

The government of Mexico explained that people who reside in the mentioned municipalities will receive an SMS with the details of their appointment to receive the antigen. In addition, you can consult the vaccination.cdmx.gob.mx portal or go directly to a vaccination center according to the initial of your paternal last name:

Monday February 15: from A to G

Tuesday February 16: H to P

Wednesday February 17: from Q to Z

Thursday 18 and Friday 19 February: delays

According to the national immunization policy, calls to the elderly will be scheduled according to the decades of age defined as priorities by the Mexican Vaccines Technical Advisory Group: first above 80 years old, then 70 to 79 years old. and finally from 60 to 69 years old.

Recommendations for seniors on the day of their COVID-19 vaccination

– Watch and hydrate.

– If necessary, the elderly person must come to the vaccination site with medicines to treat other conditions already taken.

– They can arrive accompanied by a family member and must present a official identification who proves his age and residence at the office of the mayor of the Vaccination Unit. You will also need to bring your vaccination record, to count on it.

– On arrival at the site, a card will be allocated to you according to the order of entry to the unit. In this way, if 500 tokens are exceeded, the elderly person can return the next day.

“The tokens are just in case a lot of people get somewhere, whose last name is J and it wasn’t their turn that day, it doesn’t matter they will get a token for the other day, or if there are more people than vaccines in this place», Clarified Claudia Sheinbaum, head of government of the capital, during a press videoconference.

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