translated from Spanish: Vaccination begins on Monday for over 80s in Buenos Aires

This Monday will begin in the City of Buenos Aires the process of immunization against coronavirus in adults over 80 years of age. The application will be carried out in 29 public vaccination centers enabled by the City, located in clubs, government buildings and cultural centers, which will operate from Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 and will have more than 2,000 workers.

The Government of Buenos Aires will expect to vaccinate some 5,000 people during the first day, as published by La Nación.In addition, they will begin vaccinating older adults living in the 498 geriatrics of the Federal Capital. This Monday will be the turn of about 1,000 residents. To this end, the Executive of Buenos Aires had an operation composed of about 40 people distributed in eight mobile units that will approach each of the residences, without the need for a previous shift. The registration process On Friday at 14 a.m. began the campaign to award shifts for the first doses for the first group of adults over 80. The shifts were assigned online, in buenosaires.gob.ar/coronavirus/vacunacion-covid-19, and through the call center 147.” After a first peak of website visits of more than 76,000 requests per minute that caused the turn platform to operate intermittently, the system was regularized throughout the day. And in 11 hours the reservations were completed,” the Government of Buenos Aires reported. Finally, at the early hours of Saturday, the available shifts were finished in this first round. Meanwhile, 7,000 more have already been packed for the next round, which will begin once the City receives more doses.

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