Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Thousands of Hondurans arrived this Thursday to be given the second dose of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, after a three-month wait, when it was initially said they would receive it a month after being inoculated with the first. .
Among those who began applying the second dose of the Russian drug are at least 2,000 journalists from Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, the two largest cities in the Central American country.
see: Schedule and vaccination centers for the second dose of Sputnik
The president of the College of Journalists of Honduras (CPH), Osman Reis, told Efe that “after a long wait” began vaccinating with the second dose to 1,600 communicators in the capital, and that tomorrow the day will continue in Sant Pere Sula, north of the country, with about 400.
He added that since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, more than a dozen journalists have died as a result of the disease, and that there have been means in which all its staff are infected.
According to Reyes, after the application of the first dose, some cases of contagion of journalists, But they have been “mild.”
Health authorities began vaccinating today the 40,000 people who between May and June received the first dose of Sputnik V, of which the first 20,000 arrived last Saturday.
Second file of Sputnik V
Health Minister Alba Consuelo Flors told reporters that it is confirmed that the remaining 20,000 will arrive on Sunday and called on the population to attend the inoculation centers.
Some Hondurans have been confused by the date of the second dose of Sputnik V, which led many to go to the vaccination sites today, when their appointment is due tomorrow or Saturday.
Honduras has recorded at least 8,527 deaths and 323,625 infections with covid-19 since March 2020, according to the state-run National Risk Management System (Sinager).
So far, in the country, with 9.5 million inhabitants, the Sinager registers about 3.2 million vaccinated people, mostly with the first dose.
The health body says that around one million Hondurans have the second dose and does not rule out that at the end of the year a third must be applied, for which the corresponding measures are already being taken.
The goal is to immunize more than 70 percent of the population, according to the health minister.