Sinovac is one of the vaccines approved in China and is the one that will be used for this population.
At Galo’s house, his two minor children fell ill with symptoms of COVID-19. He tested positive as did his wife in these first two weeks of January.
They had fevers and did not want to eat much. They did not go to the hospital, but a private doctor prescribed them and they are recovering.
The new wave of COVID-19 has affected children, a population that is not fully vaccinated.
The Ministry of Health reported that 47 minors, from 5 to 17 years old, were admitted to hospitals for the omicron variant in the country. Most of them were not vaccinated.
Of the 47 minors, the Ministry indicated that 37 are hospitalized and 10 in the ICU.
At the IESS Quito Sur, 200 pediatric patients are received daily in respiratory triage and of these, seven to eight, between 5 and 12 years old, are hospitalized; 80% of whom are vaccinated with two doses.
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Doctors from that house indicated that most of the patients who are admitted and are positive for COVID-19 present respiratory symptoms. At the moment there are 40 minors admitted.
In Guayaquil, the contagion of children is also worrying, but the COE specified that hospitalizations with cases of COVID-19 were not saturating the health system. The cases of hospitalizations are related to children who already had pre-existing diseases.
Carlos Salvador, director of Health of the Municipality, said that in the Roberto Gilbert hospital there were two cases in the ICU with patients under 5 years of age. One has a heart problem and the other a metabolic ailment.
From $15 to $300 is the cost at home if a family member is infected with not so aggressive variants of COVID-19
Salvador, however, said that unvaccinated children are prone to being infected by adults.
President Guillermo Lasso reiterated that starting in February children 3 to 4 years old will begin to be vaccinated.
He indicated that support will be sought from China to inoculate children of those ages. He said that this population represents about 660,000 children, which would require 1.4 million doses. “We have already sent a message to China to serve this new age group,” he said.
Sinovac is one of the vaccines approved in China and is the one that will be used for this population, according to the Vice Minister of Governance and Health Surveillance, José Ruales.
In Ecuador, 600,749 people are missing who complete their vaccination schedule, either with the two-dose or single-dose vaccines.
81.27% were vaccinated until January 16. In the first week of this month, 176,000 people have completed this scheme and in the second, 212,000 inhabitants aged 5 and over.
The projection is that between February 1 and 7, 85% will be reached with a complete scheme. With the booster dose, 11.81% of those vaccinated have just been taken and 11,759,556 people were missing to receive it until last Sunday. (I)
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