The Regional Ministerial Secretary of Health, Qf. Cristina Ojeda Ojeda announced that Los Ríos reached 80.2% coverage at the regional level in the influenza vaccination campaign. This good news, as the authority described it, “encourages us to continue encouraging vaccination in risk groups and thus reach the goal of 85% coverage, however, we are very close to achieving it.” The authority added that this progress “is mainly due to the responsibility and self-care that people have with their health and also to the intense deployment that the teams of the Primary Health Care Immunization Program, Health Service and Seremi de Salud have been carrying out in recent months.”
The regional percentage (80.2%) is equivalent to 177,602 people vaccinated out of a total of 221,424 people. Regarding the communal breakdown, the territories with the highest percentage of progress are Máfil and Futrono, territories that have already exceeded 90% of vaccinated people. On the other hand, the communes of Río Bueno and Valdivia are the ones with the lowest percentage with 72.1% and 76.7% respectively.
As we are close to reaching the percentage needed to generate a herd effect, Seremi Ojeda continues to call on “those people who are part of the risk groups, especially those aged between 60 and 64 to come to the vaccination centres, since, in this category, the percentage only reaches 61% coverage and we do not want them to be at risk of a possible infection with influenza. This is considering that we are just beginning winter with low temperatures, which can contribute to greater viral circulation.”
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