Uruguay initiates childhood vaccination against Covid-19

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Public Health of Uruguay reported on Wednesday the start of vaccination against Covid-19 in children between five and 11 years of age, prioritizing, according to the agency, the safety and speed of inoculation.

The agency underlined that out of the universe of 320,000 children in the indicated age range, 110,000 have registered so far, of which 84,000 are expected to receive the dose for the first time this week.

In the framework of the date chosen to start the anti-covid inoculation of infants, a pediatric vaccination center was inaugurated in Uruguay, located in the Pereira Rossell Hospital Center of the State Health Services Administration (ASSE).

In this way, the institution responsible for the health portfolio in Uruguay said that eight pediatric vaccination centers have already been set up throughout the country to carry out this task.

More than 77 percent of the Uruguayan population has completed its vaccination schedule, and more than 80 percent has received the first dose.

Likewise, given the increase in infections caused by the spread of the Omicron variant in Uruguay, with close to 10,000 cases recorded in the last day, the booster dose has been applied to close to 45 percent of the population.

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