Chile begins vaccination against the coronavirus of children between 3 and 5 years old with the Chinese Sinopharm

Minors between three and five years of age began this Monday to receive vaccination against the coronavirus on Chile at the same time that the country advances in the inoculation in adults of the third dose or booster dose.

“We are starting the vaccination campaign for children between 3 and 5 years old, with a vaccine that is safe and effective, and that will protect more than 700,000 children”, said the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera.

The president attended a massive vaccination in Santiago located in the National Stadium, where the vaccination of minors of this new age group began. Until now, minors from the age of six have been vaccinated in Chile.

“This vaccine, in addition to protecting children, also protects their parents, their mothers, their families”Piñera said in statements to the press, where it was specified that the Chinese double-dose vaccine will be administered to these minors Sinopharm.

; 13.8 million of the 15 million adults with the possibility of being vaccinated among the 19 million inhabitants.

It is also immersed in the vaccination process with the third dose or booster dose that has already been administered to 8.9 million people, while the pandemic is stabilized at some 2,000 new cases a day and about 20 deaths.

Chile accumulates 1.7 million infections and more than 38,000 deaths from covid-19 since the first case was registered on March 3, 2020. Last Saturday registered the first case of the new omicron variant, highly contagious according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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