translated from Spanish: Covid: WHO highlighted Chilean case to exemplify that despite successful vaccination, care measures should not be abandoned

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The agency reiterated that people comply with self-care measures, when 6.2 million people were vaccinated in the country, while the worst numbers have been produced since the start of the pandemic.

WHO highlighted Chile’s case to exemplify that self-care measures in the face of covid must be maintained, despite a successful vaccination process.
“Following the distribution of vaccines, there are those who stop complying with measures such as physical estrangation, hand hygiene, ventilation or avoiding crowded places, and all of this has to continue alongside vaccination,” WHO Covid Technical Unit Chief Maria Van Kerkhove said at a press conference.
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The expert added that “cases could be expected to go down with vaccinations, but they are just one of the tools to curb contagion and we cannot rest only on them.”
The agency’s sayings occur when 6.2 million people (3.2 of them with both doses) have been vaccinated in Chile, with the country advancing the fastest in the process, and simultaneously, the worst daily cases (7,600) and active cases (41 thousand) occur since the onset of the pandemic.

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