The Ecuadorian Pediatric Society was in favor of inoculating children from the age of three if the scientific evidence supports it.
More of 555,580 people have received the booster dose against the coronavirus until December 6, according to the vaccinometer, a tool created by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), to see how the vaccination plan is progressing.
The process started in last October with health personnel, in November with people from the third age, as well as those older than 12 years with immunosuppression and from December 1 for the general population, over 18 years of age, faced with the threat of omicron variant.
That State portfolio has explained that, after having completed six months From the second dose, the public can approach the third injection.
Anti-COVID-19 vaccination with third dose for health personnel will take place between October and November
The vaccine AstraZeneca It is the one used in the general population. Cristina Aldaz, institutional manager of the management of national vaccination plan of the MSP, mentioned that it is effective and safe especially for the new variants of COVID-19.
In people with moderate to severe immunosuppression, the same vaccine that you received in the first and second doses.
The official added that the segments of population between 5 and 17 years are those who represent the largest vaccinated daily and during December They plan to give second doses to children between 5 and 11 years old.
He argued that there is still a population of over 18 years that have not agreed to inoculation, which makes them the breeding ground for the appearance of new variants.
He expressed that in recent weeks there is a increase in cases, but it is not “significant”, although he argued that there is an upward trend, which translates into more hospital admissions.
“The vast majority of this population that even needs intensive care are the people who have not been vaccinated“Aldaz said in a radio interview.
According to the Ministry of Health of the Municipality of Quito, a person who is not vaccinated has 1.85 times more likely getting seriously ill with COVID-19.
More inoculation sites
In an effort to speed up the immunization process in the capital of the Republic, twelve new vaccination points They have been enabled in Quito, since this Wednesday, December 8: four in shopping centers, five in educational units and three in dependencies of the Executive Function.
The educational unit Alfonso del Hierro, in the sector de Cotocollao, in the north of the city, it was one of the enabled sites.
Members of the educative community such as children, adolescents, teachers, parents, adults, childcare providers, from nearby schools and colleges and also from the northern sector and surrounding areas such as Cotocollao, El Condado, Ponceano. Attention is from 08:00 to 16:00, including Saturday and Sunday.
For Enrique Perez, Undersecretary of Education of the Metropolitan District of Quito, some 15,000 people could arrive a day and it seeks to emphasize second doses between 5 to 11 years.
Other inoculation sites in educational units are: Paul VI, Aída Gallegos, Lucia Franco de Castro, Don Bosco.
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Children from 3 years
Given the announcement that the Government will analyze the possibility of vaccinating children from 3 years of age who are in school as other nations such as Colombia and Chile have done, to Fernando Aguinaga placeholder image, president of the Ecuadorian Society of Pediatrics, Pichincha subsidiary, the important thing is to try to vaccinate as many people as possible And if that includes inoculating younger children, you agree.
“What you have to see is the scientific evidence that supports and to the vaccine in these age groups, the safety of the vaccine in these age groups … ”, Aguinaga said.
Vaccination points also include higher education centers such as universities
For example, the UTE university serves the headquarters, on Bourgeois and Rumipamba streets, in the north. It will be open until December 17 from 08:00 to 16:00 from Monday to Friday.
At the headquarters on Granados Avenue, north of the city, the immunization point of the University of the Americas (UDLA) will be active until February 2022, but on Sunday, December 19, it will not attend.
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