The Ministry of Health (Minsa) continues to increase vaccination rates and accelerate the pace to protect more people from covid-19 amid warnings of possible cases of the EG.5 variant in Peru, the portfolio reported.
To this end, a team from the Integrative Health Network Directorate (Diris) in the center of Lima visited the exterior of the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa to complete the dose of tourists.
From 8am, health staff also administered hepatitis B, tetanus, influenza and pneumococcal vaccines to girls, boys, teenagers and adults.
Adults over the age of 60 should receive a booster dose of the bivalent vaccine, recalls María Elena Martínez Barrera, executive director of Minsa’s immunization agency.
“The Department of Health deployed multiple brigades outside the Santa Rosa Cathedral to boost vaccinations. Remember that a booster dose of the bivalent vaccine should be given to anyone over the age of 60 four months after the first dose. For immunization For low-functioning people, the interval is two months,” he said.
Likewise, he explained, people under the age of 60 with no comorbidities can get the bivalent vaccine two months after the last monovalent vaccine.
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Published: August 30, 2023