71% of adolescents between 12 and 17 years old have received the first dose against the coronavirus

Steven, a boy from 16 years, received last Thursday the second dose against the coronavirus.

Went to a clinic. The process, according to his father, was carried out without incident. He commented that he was asked to sign an authorization that was given to him on that site. “There is a constant presence of young people seeking the vaccine,” he mentioned.

Just a pain in the arm was the reaction he had.

On September 19 he had received the first dose of Pfizer in the coliseum of the Pichincha Provincial Council Educational Unit, in the south of the city.

As to whether Steven would return to face-to-face classes, his father maintained that they they asked for authorization, but there was little support.

A Alberto, 13 years, they gave him the second injection on Monday. He had, like Steven, arm pain, who got over it by sleeping for several hours. Now recovered, he went to his main passion: playing soccer.

The process of administering the second doses for over 12 years old It started on October 18.

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According to the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), a 71 % from the group between 12 and 17 years has received first doses, and a 29 %, the second doses.

According to him vacunometer, a tool created by that State portfolio to know how the vaccination plan against COVID-19 is progressing, 1′443.681 people 12 to 17 years old have received the first dose; 583.391, the second dose; and 1,369, the CanSino unit dose. This cut to October 25. The total population in that age range would be 2‘005.240.

For the segment of children of 5 a teenagers of 17 years, indicated Cristina Aldaz, institutional manager of the management of the national vaccination plan of the MSP, the organization for the vaccine is carried out through the educational institutions.

Almost 20,000 workers in the health sector have already received the third dose against the coronavirus

While the zonal coordination 9 of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), which corresponds to the Metropolitan District of Quito, convened the health professionals who received the second dose in April to go to the Bicentennial Convention Center, in the north of Quito, this Wednesday, to receive your booster dose; although there were doubts in those doctors who work without a dependency relationship, as Alejandro Sempértegui consulted through social media.

The MSP told him to go to the vaccination point carrying the identity card and the registry of the Secretary of Higher Education (Senescyt).