This is the first of the measures that comes into force in Peru to encourage vaccination.
People over 45 years of age will not be able to board interprovincial transport buses from this Monday in Peru if they do not prove to be vaccinated against covid-19 with the full two-dose schedule.
This is the first of the measures that comes into force in Peru to encourage vaccination and limit the mobility of people who are still unimmunized.
Within a month, starting on December 15, anyone over 18 years of age without full vaccination will not be able to enter closed public spaces.
Likewise, from that same day, drivers and collectors of urban public transport and home delivery drivers will also be required to work only if they have the complete vaccination scheme.
Currently in Peru there are more than 16.6 million people who have completed the vaccination schedule with two doses, which is equivalent to about 60% of the target population.
However, there are 4.5 million people who have only received one dose and most of them have not gone to vaccination centers to receive the second.
Likewise, about 400,000 Peruvians have already received a third booster dose, mainly health personnel and the elderly.
In the main cities, they have already begun to vaccinate minors between 12 and 17 years old with the aim that, by the end of the year, almost the entire national population is vaccinated.
However, the most lagging sectors are the rural populations, where in many cases there is reluctance regarding the vaccine, especially in some indigenous communities in the Amazon.
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Peru is one of the countries most affected by the covid-19 pandemic, having suffered in 2020 and 2021 two huge waves of infections that placed the South American country in the first place in the world in terms of mortality from this disease, adding more than 200,000 deaths, which is equivalent to more than 600 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The great impact of these first two waves and the start of the vaccination process seem to be the reason why, so far, a third wave has not been registered at the national level. (I)
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