About 13,000 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, the undersecretary of the Department of Health said Friday. Iris Cardona.
In an interview with WKAQ 580, the doctor explained that the amount could be more if the doses that were administered last night are counted.
“According to information coming to us from hospitals, some 13,402 (vaccines) are already in the arms of health professionals,” Cardona announced.
Similarly, the official advanced that, except for pains in the area of the injection, no adverse effects have been reported in people who have received the vaccine.
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He also reported that the Department of Health is working to include vaccination figures in daily reports that also report contagions and deaths from coronavirus.
“We are working on the platform. As in the case of laboratories, if the facility they are administering the vaccines has a four-hour period to report-, we will always have this delay,” he explained.
“The purpose is that in the same ‘dashboard’, where cases and hospitalizations are reported, some variables appear, which are vaccines that we have received, as they arrive, vaccines distributed in the centers. Now they are hospitals, but eventually there will be multiple points of access in which vaccines continue to arrive, “he added.