At a time when the US announced the total opening of its air and land borders from November 8, an advisory committee recommended a third dose of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine on Friday.
These and other 4 keys to the anticovid vaccination in America this week.
UNITED STATES AUTHORIZES JOHNSON & JOHNSON BOOSTER DOSE
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee recommended a booster dose of J & J’s single-dose covid-19 vaccine for all adults at least two months after the first injection. .
The news is known just when the US confirmed that next November 8 it will open its borders, both land and air, to travelers vaccinated with the full schedule.
From this date, foreigners who want to enter the country for non-essential visits, such as tourism or family gatherings, may do so from the land border, provided they have the complete vaccination schedule.
Also, international travelers vaccinated and flying from countries subject to travel restrictions so far, a list that includes the 26 European states of the Schengen area, as well as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, China, Iran, South Africa and India.
The United States will accept all vaccines that have been licensed by the World Health Organization (WHO), including that from AstraZeneca.
THIRD DOSE FOR THE PARAGUAYANS
The Government of Paraguay announced today that it will apply a third dose of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, starting this Monday, which will be intended for health personnel and the age group over 50.
This booster will be applied to those who have completed the regimen until the end of last April with the two doses of Covaxin, HayatVax, Coronavac and Sinopharm.
While Pfizer’s will be the third dose for recipients of the two previous AstraZeneca and Sputnik V.
To date, the vaccination balance in the country, of 7.3 million inhabitants, is 2,868,192 people with one dose and 2,047,239 with both.
EL SALVADOR AND NICARAGUA REINFORCE THEIR NUMBER OF VACCINES
El Salvador received a new batch of 198,900 vaccines against covid-19 from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which now adds up to 2,528,100 million doses from this laboratory, and also applies the formulas Sinovac (4,150,000), Moderna (3,000,200), Sinopharm (1,668,000) and AstraZeneca (1,407,200).
The new shipment arrives in the country at a time when it is experiencing a rise in daily coronavirus infections, which began last June and remains in the first days of October, according to official data.
Meanwhile, Nicaragua received the first batch of 192,000 Russian Sputnik Light vaccines, consisting of a single dose.
Russia claims that Sputnik Light is 70% effective against the delta variant of the coronavirus.
REINFORCEMENT OF PERU’S HEALTH PERSONNEL
Peru began this day to apply a third dose of the anticovid vaccine to its health personnel, following the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), which recommended a booster dose for risk groups.
These first booster doses will be administered to all health personnel, including from emergency services and intensive care to administrative workers.
The Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, was present at the event, who recalled that, in addition to health personnel, the other risk group that will also receive a booster dose will be those over 65 years of age.
Peru currently has more than 13.5 million people with the complete vaccination schedule, so it is close to reaching the goal of 50% that the Ministry of Health had set itself to reach at the end of October.
SLOW PROCESS IN BOLIVIA
Bolivia suffers the consequences of a slow vaccination process that has 6.6 million doses in reserve together with the risk of expiration of thousands of them.
Some of the departmental health services (Sedes), which depend on the governorates, face problems in implementing the national vaccination plan.
La Paz, for example, has 5,000 Janssen vaccines about to expire, so the authorities asked that they be returned to the Ministry of Health in case the city does not have the capacity to supply them to the population.
Bolivia acquired more than 14 million vaccines, of which around 6.6 million remain in cold chains under the authority of departmental and municipal authorities, the Ministry of Health said.
Some areas of the country are already beginning to show signs of a fourth wave of coronavirus, including Santa Cruz, the largest region in the country and the one hardest hit by the pandemic.
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