The regional body places the Central American nation, of 6.5 million inhabitants, among the most lagging countries in America.
The Government of Nicaragua reported this Monday that it has already vaccinated 77% of its population against COVID-19, estimated at 6.5 million inhabitants, according to official data.
“We have 77% of the total population” of Nicaragua vaccinated, said Vice President Rosario Murillo, through government media.
Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega, did not specify whether that amount includes the two doses or just one.
He explained that they have vaccinated 80% of pregnant women, puerperal women and infants; 62% of children older than two years; 72% of minors between 12 and 17 years old; 74% between 18 to 24 years old; and 85% of those over 30 years of age.
Nicaragua has applied the AstraZeneca, Covishield, Pfizer, Sputnik V and Sputnik Light formulas, thanks to donations from Canada, Spain, the United States, Norway, India, Panama, and the Covax mechanism, combined with a loan of vaccines from Honduras and commercial arrangements with Cuba and Russia.
Also the Cuban Abdala and Soberana 02, who are injected into children two years of age and older, and adolescents up to 17 years of age.
However, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has placed Nicaragua’s vaccination process in a coverage range that goes from 35.7% to 38.6%, and places it among the most lagging countries in America.
At the end of last year, the Executive announced a new strategy to face covid-19, which consisted of applying vaccines in all state institutions, including airports, border posts and sea ports.
The COVID-19 pandemic has left 217 dead and 17,507 confirmed cases in Nicaragua since it was detected in the Central American country in March 2020, according to the Ministry of Health.
According to the network of doctors of the independent COVID-19 Citizen Observatory, at least 5,964 people have died in Nicaragua from pneumonia and other symptoms of the pandemic, as well as 31,269 suspected cases, figures that the Nicaraguan Government does not recognize.
Since the pandemic began, Nicaragua has not applied restrictive measures as part of the fight against coronavirus, which has earned it criticism from the World Health Organization (WHO). (I)
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