Certificate requirement in Peru achieves “significant progress” in vaccination campaign against COVID-19

The obligation to present the vaccination card against covid-19 to enter closed spaces, a rule in force in Peru since last Friday, is encouraging the immunization campaign, that since then has advanced “significantly”, managing to cut the gap of the laggards.

This was assured in statements to the RPP station by the director of immunizations of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), Gabriela Jiménez, who was confident that the South American country will reach 20 million people this Sunday protected with the complete vaccination schedule. , which would represent 72% of the target population.

Jiménez assured that, since the provision that requires presenting the vaccination card came into force on December 10 to enter shopping centers, restaurants and galleries, among others, more people “are going to the vaccination centers, they are putting themselves to the right in self-care and receiving the vaccine.”

“Many of the people who are attending (the immunization points) had been considered within our statistics as people who were passed to the laggard block. When we see the account of how much we are vaccinating now, these days after assuming the measure, we are making significant progress“Said the official.

The director of immunizations of the Minsa specified that, to date, There is still a gap of 358,000 stragglers over 50 years old in the country who have not received their first or second dose against covid-19.

“At that time, the cut from 50 (years) to more, we have 87% vaccinated in the first dose and in the second dose we are 82%. However, the group with the greatest gap is between 50 and 59 years old, which is still the economically active population and there we have 187,000 people that we must continue looking for, “he said.

Jiménez added that in the population between 18 and 40 there are still 1.9 million people “to be identified” and almost a million more pending to receive the second dose of the vaccine.

71% immunized

To date, more than 19.9 million people have been inoculated in Peru with the complete vaccination schedule, which is equivalent to 71% of its target population, made up of 28,024,250 people over 12 years of age.

With the first dose there are more than 23.4 million people, 83.4% of the population, for which a total of 43.3 million doses applied were exceeded.

A) Yes, The South American country is nearing its goal of ending 2021 with 80% of its target population vaccinated against COVID-19, as announced last Monday by the head of the Health portfolio, Hernando Cevallos.

Since covid-19 arrived in March 2020, Peru has been one of the countries most affected globally by the pandemic, accounting for more than 2.2 million confirmed symptomatic cases and more than 200,000 deaths, which makes it have the highest death rate in the world from this disease. (I)