- February 9, 2021
- Posted by: medium
- Category: International
Lima –
The president of Peru, Francisco Sagasti, will be the first citizen of the country to receive on Tuesday the Sinopharm vaccine, whose first lot of 300,000 doses arrived on Sunday from China.
"Tomorrow (this Tuesday) the process itself begins with the vaccination of the President of the Republic, we are really very happy, this returns the hope of facing this health crisis," the coordinator of the COVID-19 vaccination team, Nancy Olivares, returned to the press.
Sagasti received on Sunday the first lot of vaccines at the International Airport "Jorge Chávez"In the midst of a great media deployment to show that his government fulfilled the promise of bringing the doses to start immunization.
Peru has exceeded one million infections for the pandemic and the 42,000 dead, in the middle of the second wave of the diseaseand again with hospital problems and supply of oxygen overwhelmed by demand.
Population message
The fact that Sagasti is the first vaccination also responds to the need to demonstrate that the sympharm vaccine is safe and effective, said the coordinator of the Ministry of Health.
Olivares explained to América Televisión that “today (Monday) the packaging process is being carried out for the distribution of vaccines” in Lima and the neighboring province of Callao, where the pandemic has caused the highest number of infections and deaths nationwide.
The person in charge explained that the vaccines will be sent during the course of this Monday to 13 hospitals in Lima and Callao, and from Tuesday the distribution will be made to 35 points of the country.
Health personnel is priority
He reiterated that with the 300,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, it will be vaccinated, in a first section for approximately ten days, to the sanitary personnel of intensive care, laboratories, hospitalization and to the workers of direct care to the pandemic.
With the arrival of the second lot of vaccines, announced for next day 14, the rest of the health personnel will be immunized.
Olivares indicated that the Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, has announced that it will be vaccinated at the end to give priority to the personnel who are in the front line of health care.
Minister will be vaccinated at the end
Mazzetti "has decided to be one of the last to be vaccinated, decided that it is first the health personnel, we are administrative, it is a gesture of detachment, we will prioritize the staff of greater vulnerability," said the official.
However, in the first priority group to be vaccinated, there is also "the police, the armed forces, firefighters, serenazgo (municipal security), cleaning staff of local governments, medical students and table members," he added.
In the second phase of immunization, those over 60 will be, a population with comorbidity and indigenous people, while in the third phase the rest of the population will be, said Olivares.
Cases in the Amazon, at the extreme level
The vaccination process will begin in Peru while the strength of the second wave of infections has begun to increase the number of locations with an extreme level of affected.
Thus, two provinces of the Amazonian region of Loreto, the provinces of Maynas and Ramón Castilla, have entered this week at the extreme level of infections, and people who mobilize by air will have to do so with a molecular or negative antigen test.
Lima and nine other regions of the country are at the extreme level, which is why they meet confinementand curfew from 6:00 p.m. from January 31 to February 14.
The president of Peru, Francisco Sagasti, will be the first citizen of the country to receive on Tuesday the Sinopharm vaccine, whose first lot of 300,000 doses arrived on Sunday from China.
"Tomorrow (this Tuesday) the process itself begins with the vaccination of the President of the Republic, we are really very happy, this returns the hope of facing this health crisis," the coordinator of the COVID-19 vaccination team, Nancy Olivares, returned to the press.
Sagasti received on Sunday the first lot of vaccines at the International Airport "Jorge Chávez"In the midst of a great media deployment to show that his government fulfilled the promise of bringing the doses to start immunization.
Peru has exceeded one million infections for the pandemic and the 42,000 dead, in the middle of the second wave of the diseaseand again with hospital problems and supply of oxygen overwhelmed by demand.
Population message
The fact that Sagasti is the first vaccination also responds to the need to demonstrate that the sympharm vaccine is safe and effective, said the coordinator of the Ministry of Health.
Olivares explained to América Televisión that “today (Monday) the packaging process is being carried out for the distribution of vaccines” in Lima and the neighboring province of Callao, where the pandemic has caused the highest number of infections and deaths nationwide.
The person in charge explained that the vaccines will be sent during the course of this Monday to 13 hospitals in Lima and Callao, and from Tuesday the distribution will be made to 35 points of the country.
Health personnel is priority
He reiterated that with the 300,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, it will be vaccinated, in a first section for approximately ten days, to the sanitary personnel of intensive care, laboratories, hospitalization and to the workers of direct care to the pandemic.
With the arrival of the second lot of vaccines, announced for next day 14, the rest of the health personnel will be immunized.
Olivares indicated that the Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, has announced that it will be vaccinated at the end to give priority to the personnel who are in the front line of health care.
Minister will be vaccinated at the end
Mazzetti "has decided to be one of the last to be vaccinated, decided that it is first the health personnel, we are administrative, it is a gesture of detachment, we will prioritize the staff of greater vulnerability," said the official.
However, in the first priority group to be vaccinated, there is also "the police, the armed forces, firefighters, serenazgo (municipal security), cleaning staff of local governments, medical students and table members," he added.
In the second phase of immunization, those over 60 will be, a population with comorbidity and indigenous people, while in the third phase the rest of the population will be, said Olivares.
Cases in the Amazon, at the extreme level
The vaccination process will begin in Peru while the strength of the second wave of infections has begun to increase the number of locations with an extreme level of affected.
Thus, two provinces of the Amazonian region of Loreto, the provinces of Maynas and Ramón Castilla, have entered this week at the extreme level of infections, and people who mobilize by air will have to do so with a molecular or negative antigen test.
Lima and nine other regions of the country are at the extreme level, which is why they meet confinementand curfew from 6:00 p.m. from January 31 to February 14.