The restrictions that Chile announced for 1.6 million people without a booster vaccine against the coronavirus

More than 1.6 million people who have not yet received their booster dose against coronavirus covid-19 in Chile they will suffer mobility restrictions if they are not applied before January 1, health authorities announced on Monday.

“Today there are 1,627,165 people who would be having their Mobility Pass disabled since January 1, since they have not received their booster dose more than 6 months after the second dose”, The Chilean Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, alerted at a press conference.

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The call “Mobility Pass”Is a government accreditation that allows events with greater capacity and to be served inside bars and restaurants.

In one of the most successful inoculation campaigns in the world, Chile has distributed more than 10.1 million booster doses so far and 91.9% of the target population (about 15 million people) have a full two-dose or single-dose vaccination schedule.

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The most used vaccine is CoronaVac, from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, although they are also administered to a lesser extent Pfizer / BioNtech, AstraZeneca and Cansino.

“The vaccine against covid-19 is not a substitute for prevention measures. The more I take care of myself, the fewer options I have of getting infected ”, Paris added.

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The pandemic, which had its most serious peak between last March and June and forced 90% of the population to be confined once again, has been under control for more than three months, although with slight rebounds linked to the high mobility at the end of the year.

From the Ministry of Health, however, they indicated their “concern” about the advance of the Omicron variant, which has been detected in 11 of the 16 regions of the country and of which 248 cases have already been confirmed.

In the last 24 hours, 760 cases and 22 deaths were registered, which leaves the total balance since March 2020 at 1.8 million infected and 39,056 deaths.

The Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS) of the ministry reported this Monday, however, that the total balance amounts to more than 50,000 deaths if the suspected cases are added.

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