More than 1.6 million people who have not yet received their booster dose against COVID-19 in Chile will suffer mobility restrictions if they are not applied before January 1, health authorities announced.
“Today there are 1’627,165 people who would be having their Mobility Pass disabled since January 1, since they have not received their booster dose more than 6 months after the second dose”, Alerted the Chilean Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.
The call “Mobility Pass”Is a government accreditation that allows events with greater capacity and to be served inside bars and restaurants.
In one of the most successful inoculation campaigns in the world, Chile has so far distributed more than 10.1 million booster doses and 91.9% of the target population (about 15 million people) have a complete vaccination scheme with two dose or single dose.
The most widely used vaccine is CoronaVac, from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, although Pfizer-BioNtech, AstraZeneca and Cansino are also administered to a lesser extent.
The authorities announced last week that from the second half of February they will begin to apply the fourth dose of the vaccine.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is not a substitute for prevention measures. The more I take care of myself, the fewer options I have to get infected”Added Paris.
The pandemic, which had its most serious peak between last March and June and forced 90% of the population to be confined once again, has been under control for more than three months, although with slight rebounds linked to the high mobility at the end of the year.
From the Ministry of Health, however, they indicated their “concern”Due to the advance of the Ómicron variant, which has been detected in 11 of the 16 regions of the country and of which 248 cases have already been confirmed.
In the last 24 hours, 760 cases and 22 deaths were registered, which leaves the total balance since March 2020 in 1.8 million infected and 39,056 deaths.
The Ministry’s Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS) reported this Monday, however, that the total balance amounts to more than 50,000 deaths if the suspected cases are added.
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