Starts vaccination against Covid of 200,000 minors in CDMX the following week

The government of Mexico City announced that next week the vaccination of minors suffering from some comorbidity will begin. It is expected that about 200,000 girls, boys and adolescents from 12 to 17 years old will be inoculated in the capital of the country with the biological of Pfizer.

The Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, pointed out that in Mexico City everyone aged 18 years and over has already been vaccinated with two doses, so “next week we are going to have all the adults vaccinated with their complete schedule and initiates the vaccine, according to the National Health Program, for vulnerable children ”, he said during the delivery of cards from the Wellbeing Program for girls, boys, My scholarship to begin with.

Sheinbaum Pardo added that later he will report if the vaccination against the Coronavirus will be extended to more citizens, that is, to those minors without any disease, while reiterating that face-to-face classes must continue because the capital is already on a green traffic light. .

“Later, they will inform us if the vaccination is extended or not; but we are already at a green traffic light. So, well, to school with everything! Education is very important, ”he said.

Later, the official specified that today she will release all the details for this new stage of vaccination.

In recent days, the Secretary of Health of the government of Mexico City, Oliva López pointed out that she plans to vaccinate 200,000 girls, boys and adolescents from 12 to 17 years of age with some comorbidity in the capital, in addition to anticipating that these vaccines will possibly be applied in the same way as adults, in established venues and with predetermined dates.

With this announcement, CDMX joins eight other entities that have already started this process and which are: Edomex, Tabasco, Chiapas, Durango, Chihuahua, Tlaxcala, Coahuila and Hidalgo. In these states, it is expected to inoculate minors between 12 and 17 years old who suffer from heart disease, kidney, liver, lung or digestive system, cancer or child pregnancy, among others.

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