The citizen demand for a PCR test to diagnose the disease causes the places assigned in local entities to run out quickly.
More of 30,990 people who work in the educational system came to receive the booster dose against COVID-19, until Saturday, and a total of 189,000 workers linked to that area have received the second dose.
This was stated the Minister of Education, María Brown Pérez. Until Friday, January 14, in the fiscal sector, school activities will be suspended so that students and teachers can go to get vaccinated.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), since last Friday, January 7, shortened the time of application of the vaccine reinforcement for firefighters, Armed forces, Decentralized autonomous governments, teachers, National Police, people in mobility situation, garbage collectors, health workers, Red Cross and strategic sectors such as drinking water and sewerage, electricity, oil and mining, telecommunications, air and land transportation.
The requirement is to meet five months from the second injection.
Gabriela meza, district director Ministry of Health of the MSP, recalled that within the immunization process, reinforcement doses are given to people over 50 years who have completed five months after the placement of their second dose, and the population of 18 to 49 years, having turned six months after his second injection.
Meza said that the vaccination brigades and enabling new inoculation points so that the population can access.
In accordance with zonal coordination 9, which corresponds to the Metropolitan District of Quito of the MSP, an inoculation site was set up in the Paseo San Francisco shopping center, in Cumbayá. In addition, according to the Municipality of Quito, one more point was opened, in the Quicentro Shopping mall in the north.
In the case of the Paseo San Francisco shopping center, it will attend Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to apply doses from five years of age, up to On January 21.
In December This shopping center already functioned as an inoculation site, as well as others such as Condado Shopping, in the north of Quito; Ipiales Mires, in the center of the city; o Quicentro Sur, in the south of the city.
Francisco Viteri, Secretary of Health of the Municipality of Quito, indicated that the positive growth rate of infections prompted the opening of new vaccines and respiratory triage. At the end of December and the beginning of January, a curve of greater intensity was observed in the country and in Quito, he said.
“During the vaccination period and thereafter, the number of people with disease serious, precisely from this same pathology, and also from deaths and the requirement of ICU (intensive care) ”, said Meza, on a television channel, about the influence that the process has had.
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At Pablo Arturo Suárez hospital, corresponding to the MSP, there are 42 patients of 50 beds enabled in hospitalization and 28 people are in ICU with 32 available beds.
Its manager, Jorge Peñaherrera, commented that since the previous week demand has increased of hospital beds.
Another vaccination works in the Pichincha Prefecture, where also, due to the demand of the population to become evidence that detect COVID-19, will enable two additional points from this Tuesday.
That sectional government has enabled three points for the PCR sampling: Plaza de la República, where the Prefecture works, in the center of Quito; Villaflora, in the south; Caparapungo, in the extreme north of the city. There will be two more points from this Tuesday and they will work in Tumbaco and in the Rumiñahui canton.
The interested person must not present any medical certificate to access the test. Cost is $ 4. The hours of operation are from 08:00 to 15:00. But the demand is so high that before 10:00 the quotas were already over, this Monday.
Processing takes place in the Catholic University. Hugo Navarrete, director of research from that study center, he commented that the Prefecture takes the samples. They process around 2,000 samples and for that sectional government, 300. The results are delivered between 12 and 18 hours.
In the 2,000 tests private patients and public hospitals are included. Due to the high demand they have extended their attention until 17:00 and from 07:00. Citizens must take a turn.
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Navarrete commented that the positivity is 20%. “Is increasing. In November and the first week of December it was around 2% ”, he expressed.
The University of the Americas (UDLA) once again attended the public as a point of inoculation. Weekend 4,930 doses were placed, between boosters and second doses.
The Vice Minister of Governance and Health Surveillance, José Ruales, pointed out that the omicron variant circulates since December and is in all provinces of the country due to the festivities and crowds for purchases that month. (I)
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