Uruguay’s agreement with Pfizer: the COVID vaccine will be annual
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In Uruguay, there will be annual revaccination against Covid-19, and “it is already foreseen that throughout the year vaccines will be arriving” from the Pfizer laboratory, announced the secretary of the Uruguayan presidency, Álvaro Delgado.
According to what Delgado confirmed on January 19, “before closing” 2021, an agreement was reached with the Pfizer laboratory “to have 3.7 million doses for all Uruguayans by 2022”.
The official assured that there will be “annual revaccination, ” which the laboratory, some doctors, and the vaccine commission recommend today.
Four hundred thousand pediatric doses are enrolled, which can be increased. With this, Uruguay will surpass 88% of the total vaccinated population”.
Part of the agreement with Pfizer implies that “Uruguay will always receive the latest version of the vaccine”, considering that the new versions will cover more strains and will therefore be “more efficient”.
PEDIATRIC VACCINATION
Vaccination in children from 5 to 11 years of age is given “successfully and with great demand”. “The second dose is scheduled for February so that they are immunized before the school cycle on March 7,” he added.
OMICRON AND THE THIRD DOSE
Even though the omicron variant presents only mild symptoms also in unvaccinated people and even though there is substantial evidence that a third dose of the vaccine does not protect against the new variant, Delgado still urges the population to complete the vaccination schedule, including the third dose, to “avoid severe cases,” he argues.
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