While Caleños must continue to wear face masks in outdoor spaces, because 70 percent of vaccinations with complete schemes have not been reached, In 17 municipalities of Valle del Cauca, its inhabitants will already be able to be on the street without masks.
These populations, according to information from the Ministry of Health, are: Obando, El Cairo, El Dovio, Ulloa, Versalles, Riofrío, Calima, El Águila, Trujillo, La Victoria, Argelia, Bolívar, Yotoco, Toro, Restrepo, Guacarí and Seville.
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The Secretary of Health of Cali, Miyerlandi Torres, pointed out that in this city the conditions required to withdraw the use of mandatory face masks in outdoor spaces are not yet met.
“We have 83.5% coverage of first doses and 67.5% with two doses, for which it is necessary to make an effort during these next few days with the different actors of the system and achieve 70% so that in this way we can leave the mask in outdoor places,” said Torres.
The official announced that they hope to reach 70% in five days, and for this they will vaccinate again in massive events, in the market places, the Transport Terminal and Pance.
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In addition, to be more effective, from next March 1, only five vaccination mega-centers will be maintained because there has been no evidence of relevant assistance to these places, so the task will focus on bringing biologicals to territories to strengthen immunization. . “The aim is to strengthen extramurality and be in the territories where the people who have been reluctant to vaccination are. For this reason, it is necessary to be on the street again”, he specified.
Torres explained that “the megacenters will be left for the population that continues to arrive sporadically and spontaneously, with the application of between 500 and 600 doses per day, for which it is pertinent to maintain them.
The 5 megacenters that will be open from March 1 are La 14 de Calima, Pascual Guerrero Stadium, Premier Limonar, La 14 de Pasoancho and CC Comercial Unicentro.
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Regarding ‘herd immunity’, the Secretary said that today it is not possible to measure it. “We hope to have an immune population, not only around vaccination as an acquired immunity, but because of the peak we had in January, we surely have a population with natural immunity. The best immunity is the combined one that is given by contagion and vaccination,” she stated.
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