To date, the National Government has a record of 1.85 million citizens that have been immunized against Covid-19.
According to the report, Bogota leads in the implementation of vaccinesafter having administered 1,054,031 doses. It is followed by Antioquia, with 787,131; Valle del Cauca, with 501,236; Cundinamarca, with 321,108; and Santander, with 256,450.
Contagions and deaths.
The country is going through the most complicated moment of the pandemicin recent days cases have increased considerably and several cities are on red alert in the hospital system. In the most recent report of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, issued on the afternoon of Monday, May 3, 11,599 new positives were confirmed for a total of 2,905,254 over the course of the pandemic. There were also 464 new deaths reported to reach 75,164 in more than a year.
Recovered and active cases.
During the last 24 hours, 20,723 people have passed the virus, bringing the number of coronavirus recoveries to 2,721,317. There are currently 99,154 active cases, distributed in the 32 departments of the national territory. The National Vaccination Plan is progressing slowly with only 5,112,694 doses applied. Less than 2 million people have received the second dose.
Immunization.
The National Government recorded in this last report a total of 1,859,657 million immunized citizens, who have already received the two doses of the vaccine, the objective defined in the Vaccination Plan is to immunize 37,750,000 Colombiansthat is, 66.5 million doses, for which 20 million doses have been purchased for 10 million Colombians through Covax and 46.5 million doses for 27,750,000 people through bilateral mechanisms.
What are these bilateral mechanisms?
Pfizer: 10 million doses procured for 5 million people
AstraZeneca: Colombia purchased 10 million doses for 5 million people.
Janssen: 9 million doses for 9 million people
Moderna: the National Government has just acquired 10 million doses for 5 million people.
Sinovac: 7.5 million doses for 3,750,000 people.
Globally, the pandemic already leaves 153.084.533 confirmed cases, 3.206.618 deaths and 89.795.668 recovered.
