Massive presence of users and waiting was registered in some vaccination centers against COVID-19 in Quito

Nails a hundred people lined up, this Monday, December 27, outside the Metropolitan Sports Center, located in the Iñaquito sector, in the north of Quito, where a point of inoculation against COVID-19.

Mariano Carrera, 75 years old, I was the last in line after 10:00. He went to that place to see if he could access the booster dose.

He said he went to the place last week, but had been told there were still a few days to go. He did not notice high demand from citizens when he went to the place in previous days. In their first doses, you received at the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), there was no delay.

“I worry about my health; You also have to take care of yourself, especially because of my age (…). There are so many things, contagions, “he said while showing his inoculation card, which stated that the second dose had been received last July.

For Carrera it was preferable to wait, but he was going to be vaccinated.

About an hour had to wait Roberto Ayala, 55 years old and who works in the public sector, for the third dose. Upon arrival also had to queue. He recalled that for his second dose, in the coliseum of the Pichincha Provincial Council Educational Unit, in the south of the city, he had to wait about an hour.

“Yes it is necessary to have the card (of vaccination), for the variant (omicrón) ”, indicated Ayala after being inoculated.

At 9:10, Rodrigo Gómez de la Torre began to queue on the outskirts; He commented that it was about a block away. At 20 minutes he entered.

In their two previous doses did not recall waiting to receive them, but added that, in this case, people were going for their first, second, or booster dose.

At another mass vaccination point, that of the Central University Coliseum, which is located in the north center of Quito, the surprise of people who arrived at the place was great, because it was closed.

Demand for tests to detect COVID-19 increases in Guayaquil laboratories

Some five mexican citizens They wanted to be vaccinated, but could not do it, while the elderly wanted to get the third dose and they did not agree either.

The alternative for older adults, living in the Villaflora, in the south of Quito, It was to go to a place closer to his home.

According to zonal coordination 9 of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), which corresponds to the Metropolitan District of Quito, the inoculation point of that university was in the process of disinfection, so users were being directed to the Metropolitan Sports Center.

In some vaccination centers, like the one in San Juan, located in the center of Quito, there was also a line of people.

Laura Calvache, 63, was a few meters from the entrance door of that vaccination center for the booster dose. He told that he wore thirty minute wait. Although there was not much demand, they had been told that there was only one doctor, so there was a delay and they were asked to wait.

In the Catholic University, in the north of the capital of the Republic, received the first dose; and in the Mejía school, the second, in the center. At both sites he did not delay, he said.

“I come to get vaccinated to have the (vaccination) card, because it is necessary to do all procedures (…) and for health as well, to prevent disease, “said Calvache about the reason for going.

At least five public service establishments were closed for not requesting a vaccination document

Walter Araujo, 78, He went to the third dose, as he found out that five months later it could be administered. The first two doses were received in the Bicentennial Park, in the north of Quito, where he highlighted the agility in the attention, while the delay At the vaccination center in San Juan, he attributed it to a lack of personnel or a slowness in care.

For the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, the mandatory nature of the vaccination card means that more people complete the inoculation scheme and there is less exposure to COVID-19.