Chile reached one million vaccinated against COVID-19

Chile exceeded on Tuesday the million people vaccinated against COVID-19, six days after the process of mass immunization in older adults, who joined the medical staff that has already been inoculated since December, the Ministry of Health reported.

The country managed to vaccinate a total of 1,025,580 people, among which 376,519 are over 78 who for six days started the process of mass immunization thanks to the acquisition of four million doses of the Chinese Laboratory Syovac, the Ministry of Health reported. "Today we exceed one million people vaccinated. We have a million reasons, most older adults, to be happy," said President Sebastián Piñera, in his official Twitter account.

Chile had managed to exceed 550,000 inoculation last Saturday.

The process was carried out agilely and only on Tuesday was vaccinated to 222,070 people among the elderly, workers with functions of the essential and basic service of the State, pharmacies and laboratories personnel, in addition to members of the Armed Forces and the police deployed to address the emergency of the pandemic.

Chile began to immunize its health personnel in December, when it received a first lot of 154,000 doses of Pfizer/Bionntech vaccines against the Coronavirus, which has already infected more than 758,000 people and exceeds 19,000 deaths in the country.

The Easter Island was joined to the immunization process on Tuesday, the tourist island territory located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at 3,700 km from the continental Chile, where 120 people were vaccinated on the first day after the arrival of a lot of 1,200 synovac drugs.

Island authorities indicate that they have not registered cases of COVID-19 for more than 300 days because the entrance of tourists is closed.

Chile reached agreements to buy about 36 million doses with Pfizer, Syovac, Johnson & Johnson and Astrazeneca. For now there is no modern pact and progress is not ruled out later with the Russian Sputnik V.