In the south of Quito, in the sectors of Quitumbe and El Recreo, vaccination points were installed that received people for their immunization.
The omicron variant of COVID-19 It causes concern among citizens and motivates them to reinforce protection, while the requirement to get vaccinated by applying for the card in non-essential places also forces them to do so. That was evidenced during the Christmas holiday in cities like Guayaquil and Quito.
Those who had not been inoculated for various reasons, including illness, gestation period or because they simply did not want to, went to the different authorized vaccinations. For example, in zone 8 (Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón), the Ministry of Public Health established 11 sites between medical centers and hospitals.
Paola, 38, left her home in the northwest to the southwest taking advantage of the holiday to get the first vaccine. In recent days, the administration of an urbanization where she works in Daule alerted her that from tomorrow they would require a vaccination card to enter.
Like her, at least a dozen citizens came in that same group to access the first dose at the Cisne 2 health center.
Both Paola and Génesis, 30, confessed that they did not want to be vaccinated, but that faced with this requirement to do paperwork and to enter work, they made the decision to do so and took advantage of the holiday, since there are not many people.
Genesis said that since she had COVID-19 last August, she thought it was not necessary to apply the dose. “I was sick in August. The doctors told me to wait a couple of months, and I said, ‘Well, I’ll be naturally immunized for a few more months.’ But now, as I see that they are not letting even the mallesThey ask for it to do paperwork, so I just came to get vaccinated ”, he said.
In that Paola agreed, who was sitting next to her distantly. “They told me that if I didn’t bring my card, I was not going to be allowed to enter. Not that I want to be without work, that’s the most important thing for me, ”the woman confessed.
Olimpia Cabrera, 30, came to get vaccinated with her first dose. She commented that she did not attend the inoculation months ago because she was pregnant and her gynecologist told her to avoid it, for any adverse reaction.
“It has been three months since I had my daughter. I am breastfeeding, but my doctor told me to just go get vaccinated, “she said.
Vaccination day in Quito
The presence of the new variant, considered more contagious, made Carla Pila, 24 years old, will take his 7 year old daughter to be placed the second dose of Sinovac at the Quitumbe land terminal, one of the three authorized points, in the south of Quito, this Sunday.
She pointed out that if you catch it, you will have more protection and nothing serious will happen to him.
María Cuchipe, 31, took her two children to get vaccinated first doses, the oldest of 12 years and the second of 5, to the same place.
The first had missed the yellow fever vaccine, which was put a month ago and the next, the regular scheme.
For her the appearance of the new variant is a bit worrying, so it is important that they are vaccinated in your family.
The son by Joselyn Chacha, 7, received the second dose of Sinovac.
The child had COVID-19 and could not be vaccinated when the day was done at his school, so his first vaccination was late.
His mother said that the minor he got a fever for a couple of hours and He was controlled with paracetamol without major complications. A relative brought the virus to his home, but now everyone is vaccinated.
“It’s worrying the question above all that they send us to confinement again, work ”, he replied when asked about the new variant.
Milva Pinto, 36, went with her 11-year-old daughter to be administered the second dose. He argued that he took her for health and prevention.
“You have to be forewarned and because the second dose corresponds to him, and another factor is that they demand it of me because he is in school and I have to present that so that he can enter face-to-face classes and also for his health, “he said.
Last November 18th he had given her the first dose of Sinovac.
He highlighted the attention and especially that an inoculation site has been placed in the bus station, because he maintained that sometimes there is no time to assist others.
Her and her family they were returning to Guayaquil; without Having it planned took advantage of the agility in the attention to users to access the vaccine.
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On the first floor of the Quicentro Sur shopping center, to one side of the parking lot, another point was installed, in the south of the capital of the Republic, where he attended Victor Marcelo Guerra, 32 years old.
It was together with his wife and three children to receive the first dose; He argued that they had not been vaccinated before because they did not believe in the vaccine, but the government’s obligation that the entire population should be immunized motivated him to go to an inoculation point.
“Even to enter here, to the mall, we have to have the (vaccination) certificate”, he indicated. Received AstraZeneca.
In the exteriors of that mall, a sign reminded customers to present their vaccination card, wear a mask, disinfect their hands, and keep their distance.
Outside was Lidia Andrango, 53 years old. She had her vaccination card plastered in her hand, but her two children forgot at home. It seemed good to him that they were asked for the document to enter because that helps protect other people.
She is not worried about the new variant. “I think that the vaccine does protect us and since I am due for the third (dose in January), yes I am going to put myself to protect myself “, he said while they thought about returning to his home to pick up the document.
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At El Recreo shopping center, Also in the south of the city, there was an influx of citizens to the inoculation point installed on the second floor, next to the offices of two cell phone operators.
Carlos Orozco, 61, took her 6-year-old daughter to that place where she was given the first dose of Sinovac.
When consulting you if it was for the new variant replied that partly, but with his wife they had already decided to do it, although they could not before because a month had to pass after the girl received other vaccinations of the regular schedule.
“(With) the scientific knowledge that exists, it is known that this protects him from something more serious,” he said about the importance of vaccination.
At the entrances to that shopping center, with a speaker, one of the employees asked the clients not to forget to bring the vaccination certificate when entering by provision of the national COE. (I)
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