Fernán Quirós: “We do not imagine the need to expand the sanitary pass to more places”

This Thursday, the Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Fernán Quirós, ruled out that, at least for the moment, they do not evaluate the “need” to extend the health pass to more places in the City of Buenos Aires.This statement was given within the framework of the usual weekly report on the epidemiological situation of CABA and in a context where the district already requests the vaccination certificate with two doses in recitals, massive sporting events and dance venues.” What we are going to do when the national government provides the regulations is to formalize something that already happens in the City because for mass shows, large volume sports and dance venues it is already mandatory to present the certificate of double vaccination, “were the words of the head of the Buenos Aires health portfolio.

And he continued: “We did not imagine the need to expand the measure to more places because when one looks at the data of the City, 90% of the porteños have already applied the first dose and 5% of the inhabitants are less than 3 years old, so they can not be vaccinated, that means that the vast majority have the will to be vaccinated.” Subsequently, he gave details about vaccination in the district, which is found in 89% of the population with the first dose and 80% with the second. “We are going to vaccinate all people with a booster, so be attentive because as the six months are completed, we are going to invite you,” he said. Today, those who are receiving the additional doses are immunosuppressed people and those over 50 years of age who received the two doses of Sinopharm. According to official data, 142,914 people have already been vaccinated, while the booster dose (for those who received the second dose more than six months ago, starting with people over 70 and health personnel) was applied to 108,027 individuals. In relation to the Ómicron variant, he said that “there is a lot of information that we do not yet have; we know that it has many mutations in quite critical places, that preliminary data indicate that it would seem to be more contagious than the Delta, although this is not yet certain, and there are some suspicions that it could give milder pictures, but there are too few cases to affirm it. ”

“As for vaccines, developers are testing with the serums of vaccinated people and in a few weeks we will have an answer on whether the immunity aroused by vaccines is sufficiently protective,” he said. He added that “it is very likely that this variant was circulating for weeks before it was detected, so it is possible that it is in more countries than we already know and what we learned from these variants is that if they are very contagious sooner or later they reach all countries.” Here (in Argentina and in particular in the City) what must be done is to complete the vaccinations, approach 90% with the two doses, give the booster to the sixth month; and of course do everything that can be done in open space because it lowers almost 20 times the risk of contagion, ventilate and use the mask in closed spaces, “he concluded.
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