As of December 1, it will be necessary to have the complete scheme of the anticovid vaccine on the card to be able to enter leisure establishments and mass events. This implies the two doses in the case of biological ones that have this scheme, as are those of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Sinovac. This was announced this Friday by President Iván Duque, who also indicated that there will be some exceptions, such as for people who already had covid-19 and only need to apply one dose."Today, whoever has a dose can present the card. In the month of December it will be with a double dose. We all need to achieve full vaccination and move forward to protect the lives of others and prevent any situation of a peak new, with lethal implications," Duque said.

You can read: The first case of covid-19 in the world would have been a vendor from Wuhan, says a studyThe Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz Gómez, reiterated for his part that this document will be mandatory to enter to restaurants, discos, bars and other similar places.

"We don't want a Christmas with outbreak problems. We don't want a bitter January. So that's the incentive for people to get vaccinated. We're seeing a very positive response from young people, so now they're all the given conditions to grow even more in vaccination at the national level", said the official, at the end of a PMU in Cereté, Córdoba. In addition, regarding the Sputnik vaccine, which has not yet been approved in the country, he assured that they will consult about it before the Vaccine Advisory Committee, taking into account that some citizens already have a dose of it.

See also: In eight days, 70% of Colombians would already have their first dose of the anticovid vaccine "It is a vaccine that does not have legal status at the national level because it does not have an authorization for emergency use. Colombia does not have either a set of vaccines different from those that the WHO has endorsed and that has been our line of conduct against the approval of biologics and we have maintained it over time," he said.A total of of 52,756,342 doses of vaccines against covid-19, of which 28,807,263 correspond to first doses, 18,698,820 to second doses and 4,563,225 to monodose (Janssen biological), according to the most recent report from the Ministry of Health , cut off at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday.In total, 23,262,045 Colombians have the full vaccination schedule against covid-19. In addition, 687,034 have received the booster dose, or 'third dose', which in the country is available for adults 50 years of age or older and people with immunosuppressive diseases.

This measure is taken positively by the Cali authorities since they consider it beneficial in terms of complying with coverage, which today is 69% in people with first doses and 50% with complete schemes.“In terms In general, it is positive for people to really comply with the schemes and we can protect people's lives and avoid the possible four peak, especially in those who are not vaccinated and in those who have not complied with the scheme," said the Secretary of Health, Miyerlandi Torres, while indicating that with this requirement it will be possible to carry out the scheduled massive events in a safer way. However, he comments that the challenges are that "the IPS can upload the information on the vaccines that are applied to the system and that the Paiweb works well so that people can have access to the digital card, since we have had complaints about the inconveniences to download it”. In an effort to speed up anticovid vaccination, next week the human resources and immunization days will be increased. Likewise, "we will continue carrying out the pertinent controls, inviting the merchants to enforce it," added Torres. Faced with the new requirement of the National Government, the epidemiologist Stephany Sánchez, affirmed that this "is the only way to ensure that people get vaccinated and thus reduce the rate of infections.”According to data from the Municipal Health Secretariat, an average of 120 positive cases of covid continue to be registered daily in the city. And in deceased, around 3 and 4 deaths per day. ICU occupancy at a general level is 67.7% (592 people), of this only 6.3% (55) are patients with covid or suspicion of having the virus. The number of samples continues to be between 3000-3500 daily. Miyerlandi Torres stated that the Secretariat continues to monitor the statistics and reports daily. "We must continue to strengthen vaccination to reduce referrals to the ICU and hopefully we will achieve zero deaths from covid."

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Some commercial establishments reject the measure because they believe that sales will be affected. harm even more," said Manuel Pineda, president of Asobares in the Valley. Meanwhile, Brany Prado, regional director of Acodrés, mentioned that this decree "has spoiled the economic recovery we have been experiencing." with measure. “People do not have clear information and sometimes do not understand that this is not a whim of the establishments but a requirement at the national level. Also, when they do not have the physical card, they try to access the platform to download it but it does not work, it is down or the information does not appear.