translated from Spanish: Minister Paris: “I think on June 15 we are likely to have a clearer effect of the vaccine”

In a new edition of Estado Nacional, The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, referred to the harsh figures left by the pandemic at present and the vaccination plan. When asked about the reason for the increase in infections, the secretary of state replied “it is likely that it has to see the greater circulation of the Brazilian strain (…) Also obviously the increase in mobility.” The average bed occupancy at this minute nationwide is 96%, so we know that more patients are entering the ICU and who is coming in? young people,” he said. Along these lines, he commented on the situation in Israel and England, when they achieved 75% of the vaccination with the first dose, showed a drop in infections and hospitalizations, Paris said that this still does not happen in Chile. “We haven’t reached that number yet, but we’re going to get there this week. I am sure that in one more week we will see a change,” he said on the TVN program. He also added that “we believe that we are on a high plateau, but the signal that the PCR and the positivity of the antigen test gives me, makes me think that it will begin to decline I think that on the 15th, it is likely that we will have a clearer effect of the vaccine”. The portfolio manager said that “no vaccine prevents contagion,” however, 80% of people in ICU are not vaccinated. “If you’re not vaccinated you’re 4.7 times more likely to fall into the ICU and you’re 3.7 times more likely to die,” he said.

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