Uruguay to provide fourth dose against Covid-19 from second trimester
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Uruguay is going through its second wave of Coronavirus with an exponential increase of cases in the last hours. This Wednesday, 5,330 new infections were confirmed, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic on March 13, 2020.
Deaths have remained stable, as the Omicron variant is very contagious, but the course of the disease is usually mild to very mild.
The appearance of new strains is said to have made it necessary to reinforce doses and even initiate a new vaccination phase.
According to a senior Public Health official, from the second quarter of this year, Uruguay will start immunizing those who currently have the full three-dose schedule with a fourth booster dose.
At the same time, health authorities encourage those who initially received the first two vaccines to get the third dose.
On December 20, in a video call by Zoom, the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, together with other collaborators, agreed with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer the purchase of vaccines also for children between 5 and 11 years old.
Initially, it was agreed that the first doses for this population would arrive in January, but the first shipment was brought forward, and on December 29, the first 54,000 pediatric doses arrived in the country.
Another 200,000 doses are expected to arrive in January and another 200,000 in February.
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