A total of 4626 new confirmed cases. coronavirus were registered in the last 24 hours in the country. This is stated in the latest report of the Ministry of Health. In addition, there are nine dead.
According to the report of the Minsa Situation Center, only 19 discharges from hospitals of people who overcame the disease were also registered in these last 24 hours.
To date, there have been 1,198 people hospitalized with coronavirus. Ministry of Health care. However, this time the number of patients in Intensive care beds.
Since the start of the pandemic, 32,314,304 samples have been processed in Peru, of which 3,749,635 have been positive and 28,564,669 have been negative.
Minsa urges people to get vaccinated against COVID-19
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) announced today that the National Institutes of Health (INS) conducted two studies using national databases to determine the effectiveness of the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and concluded that it provides a significantly higher degree of protection to have only two doses.
The first study concluded that the estimated effectiveness of the third dose in preventing death from the disease is 87.2% in people aged 18 years and older. This indicates that the likelihood of dying from COVID-19 during a micromicron wave was almost 90% lower in people vaccinated with three doses than in people vaccinated with only two doses.
An important point of the first study is that the effectiveness of the third dose remained at 87.1% in people aged 60 years and older, who are precisely the group with the highest mortality rates.
100,000 people over 30 have already received their fourth dose
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) has launched a fourth dose of COVID-19 for people over 30 years of age at the national level, and to date, about 100,000 people in this age group have already received this dose of the vaccine after five months. receiving a third dose.
“We already have an average of 100,000 30-year-olds receiving the fourth dose of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and this was an important expectation for this age group,” said Minsy Maria, director of immunizations. Elena Martinez Barrier.
In addition, a Minsa official announced that Peru continues to be the third country in South America with the highest number of vaccine doses applied. “This is thanks to the efforts of all medical staff who have stepped up vaccination through various strategies,” he said.
Source: RPP
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