The coronavirus vaccination minga in Quito is estimated to cover about 30,000 people

Nails 30,000 people estimates by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) that they would be inoculated against the coronavirus in the mass vaccination that takes place, between this Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 of November, in the General Rumiñahui Coliseum, which is located in the north center of Quito, in the avenue Ladrón de Guevara.

It is aimed at the population older than 5 years for first doses, second doses and reinforcement for older adults, over 12 years of age with immunosuppression, health and support personnel such as the Police or the Armed Forces.

To that place came Cristina Vasco, 51, to put in the first dose of AstraZeneca. At your discretion, the process developed quickly, Well, he estimated that it took about 10 minutes. He added that they did not tell him anything about the second dose.

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José Miranda, 48, took his two children, ages 11 and 9, to the Rumiñahui Coliseum. He said that there was not enough space for them to receive the vaccine in the educational unit in which they study. He went to a health center closer to his home but, he added, they told him that they were not vaccinated there and suggested that he take them to the coliseum.

The children are going to physical fitness classes for a few days and on other days they develop their day via virtual, but he not convinced that the presence is total. He thinks that since they are children they are going to remove the mask or someone could be sick and infect them.

After the second dose and after a period of time I would send them definitively to face-to-face activities.

Milena Cadena, 6 years old, received the first dose. He said the puncture didn’t hurt as much. It was with his mother, Patricia Corral, for whom with the vaccine any risk of contagion is avoided or if there is contagion that is not so complicated and also for the announcement made by the Government of the return to face-to-face classes. Last week, the mother added, her daughter was going to be vaccinated at school, but they could not go.

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Janeth zonal responsible for public health surveillance of Zone 9 of the Ministry of Public Health (SMEs), explained that there are 60 brigades, 10 outside the coliseum aimed at vulnerable people or those with immunosuppression, and 50 inside. Estimated that about 15,000 people would go every day.

Yar indicated that if people they do not have the certificate or the vaccination card, the system looks for it but they must carry an identity document. If the parents do not have the informed consent at that time, it can be registered, he added.

Military personnel supports the process and directs people to vaccination squads. There are also certain doors only for entry and exit of those who attend.