The Ministry of Health (Minsal) announced the expansion of the priority groups that will be able to receive the bivalent vaccine, annual inoculation against Covid-19, which contains the original strain of the virus and the Ómicron, allowing to keep the population protected from the new variables that have been appearing in recent months.
According to figures from the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), the coverage of the bivalent vaccine – more than three months after its arrival – has only reached 27% of the target population, so it was determined to expand the priority groups.
In that sense, the Minister of Health, Ximena Aguilera, said that “we need to strengthen our actions to increase that vaccination coverage.”
“At the same time, in line with the requests of the committee of experts and different opinions that have been sent to the Ministry, and according to the analysis we have done epidemiologically, we have decided that we are going to expand the groups to vaccinate with this bivalent vaccine to other risk groups,” he added.
In this way, starting next Monday, January 16, the following people will be able to start receiving the bivalent vaccine:
• People over 50 years old.
• Persons with severe and profound disabilities (registered in the national disability registry).
• Caregivers of patients with dependency (Preferential Law).
• Population in closed SENAME centres.
• Officials in critical functions in the State.
• Essential personnel for direct attention to citizens and essential functions in basic service companies.
• Law enforcement and security forces, Armed Forces and ONEMI, CONAF and Firefighters.
• Nursery educators and people who exercise functions in nursery and kindergartens.
• Teachers and directors of preschool, basic and secondary education.
• Gendarmerie personnel and persons deprived of their liberty.
• Personnel of transport companies: land, air and sea.
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