Chile would have 80% of its population vaccinated in June, according to the Minister of Health of that country

President Piñera has already received the second dose of a Chinese vaccine.

On Thursday, Chile applied coronavirus vaccines to 412,000 people in just 24 hours. This and other reasons have led the country's Minister of Health, Enrique París, to say that if everything continues as planned in the National Immunization Plan, 80% of the population would be vaccinated by June.

Paris mentions that this has occurred thanks to correct application and work with the National Immunization Registry, since “they work like clockwork.” In addition, everything is based on the prompt and rapid negotiation that began in May 2020 with the pharmaceutical companies that were already beginning studies of possible vaccines.

In this way, 35 million doses from the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Sinovac laboratories were guaranteed, of which more than 10 million have already arrived in Chile, with the Chinese contribution from Sinovac being the majority.

This was mentioned in an interview on the Argentine programEvery morning, in which he also recognized the workof the Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, for this to be achieved.

While,Piñera, who is 71 years old, received this Friday the second dose of the vaccine made by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, completing your COVID-19 vaccination chart.

“We have two great instruments. One is the vaccine and the other is personal care. If we use both well, we will get out of this pandemic that already has us all very tired, we have been with the pandemic for too long,” said Piñera, according toEFE.

Chile began vaccinating health personnel on December 24, 2020 and the mass process among citizens began on February 3, reaching 4,618,528 people to date, which is equivalent to 24% of the country's total population. and about 31% of the target population who can receive the vaccine.

According to the latest data from the Our World in Data registry, from the University of Oxford, Chile is currently the country that is administering the vaccine the fastest in the world, with an average of 1.30 daily doses per 100 inhabitants inoculated in recent years. 7 days.

The objective of the authorities is that the bulk of the critical highest-risk group, approximately 5 million people, is vaccinated during the first quarter of 2021, and that the bulk of the country's target population, close to 15 million people, is vaccinated. during the first half of this year.