Miami, United States.
Florida covid-19 vaccination centers are gearing up to receive more people starting this Monday, when all over 18 years of age residents in the state will be able to have access to immunization.
April 5 is the date from which only children and adolescents will be excluded from the vaccination in this southern state, Which is the third in number of cases and the fourth in number of deaths from the new coronavirus nationwide.
But there are even places where people over the age of 16 can be vaccinated, such as Hard Rock Stadium, located on the outskirts of Miami.
“We’re anticipating a busy week with the new (vaccination) criteria,” in Florida, Mike Jachels, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told Miami’s NBC 6 television channel. vaccination centers across the country.
To date, 9.7 million vaccines have been delivered in Florida, 6.3 million first doses and 3.4 million second, According to figures from the State Department of Health, which has more than 21 million inhabitants.
Health workers
vaccination start in Florida in mid-December and in the first place the front-line health workers of the fight against covid-19 and those over 65, both those living in nursing homes and those living at home.
Since March 1 has been in Florida more than 2.1 million cases and 34,000 deaths from covid-19.
According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2,351 cases of “British” variant of the covid-19, 55 from the “Brazilian” and 16 from the “South African”.