Global Courant 2023-04-20 03:26:20
Juan Rodríguez (86 years old), originally from San Antonio Copán, and a resident of the Perpetuo Socorro asylum, was one of the first citizens to receive the new bivalent covid vaccine today.
The government acquired this new vaccine, with a 95% effectiveness against all variants and a single dose, and yesterday the Cortés Metropolitan Health Region began its application in all health centers in the department.
Erika García, liaison for the Immunization Program (PAI) in this region, reported that the groups to which it will be applied are those over 60 and health personnel. This region was supplied with 20,168 single application doses.
The application will be made free of charge in all the health centers of 11 municipalities of Cortés (Exception of San Pedro Sula) from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.
The specialist denied rumors of serious side effects, and that the only ones are the common ones, such as pain in the area of application.
The requirements are to carry a vaccination card, which proves the two doses, the first booster dose is not essential.
Sara Sierra, from the PAI of the Metropolitan Region of San Pedro Sula, said that during today and tomorrow the application of the vaccine will be shared among the staff and that she hopes that by Friday it will already be applied in the 16 health centers of the city, as well as as in the Las Palmas and 6 de Mayo macro-districts.
He emphasized that this is due to the fact that the nursing staff has been in protests and many have just joined the work. He affirmed that they are also in negotiations to apply them in two peripheral IHSS clinics in San Pedro Sula.
The bivalent includes an mRNA component from the parent virus strain to provide a broad immune response against COVID-19 and an mRNA component in common between lineages of omicron BA variants. 4 and BA
Nationwide, the country was supplied in March with 299,520 doses of the bivalent vaccine against covid. Honduras accumulates 472,485 cases of the disease
