Two new anti-coronavirus vaccination points open in the south of Quito; one will be in a mall

Two new vaccination points against the coronavirus will open this weekend in the south of Quito.

One of them will be destined to health personnel and the other will be a massive point where the general population will be able to approach.

To the educational unit Paul VI, located on Avenida Mariscal Sucre S9-199 and Los Libertadores, health professionals who carry out their work in a particular way will be able to go. It will attend Saturday and Sunday. They are expected to arrive about 3,000 people.

While, from the next Monday, November 15 and until November 30, the mass vaccination point will be opened in the Quicentro Sur shopping center, which is located on Avenida Morán Valverde.

The weekend will also be attended in the health centers from Chimbacalle, Guamaní, to the south of the city; Knowledge and Tumbaco, in the valley of Los Chillos

This Thursday the vaccination facility installed in the Paseo San Francisco shopping center in Cumbayá will be closed. From 800 to 1,000 people They have been vaccinated daily according to the Ministry of Public Health (MSP).

Rocío Morales, responsible for immunizations of 65 health establishments, from Luluncoto to El Quinche of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) of Zone 9 that corresponds to the Metropolitan District of Quito, indicated that install vaccinations in the malls it is giving them good results. He argued that people visit those places and incidentally, with the promotion they carry out, they get inoculated.

In addition, it is an opportunity to reach the largest number of the population possible and not only to 85% of the population but to 95% that would allow to reach herd immunity.

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While the vaccination day Anticoronavirus continued this Wednesday in different places of the capital of the Republic. South of the city, in the Chimbacalle sector, for example, there was a massive presence of children, between 5 and 11 years old, to receive the first dose, who were accompanied by their parents or relatives. Also health personnel as well as elderly people.

In the auditorium of the place, on the second floor, two vaccination brigades made up of vaccinators and typists. The people settled in chairs separated from each other. After waiting their turn, they went on to be immunized.

Veronica Flores He took his 10 and 11 year old daughters. She mentioned that they need to be vaccinated because they are going to enter face-to-face classes, they are not only at home and learning is better physically. He indicated that they are already adapting the educational establishment for the face-to-face return.

For her, the process was quick while for Jorge Ribadeneira, age 85, was delayed. She said she waited more than an hour for the third dose and did not feel any pain.