Friday, March 29

PAHO highlights vaccination process in Panama


The latest report published on January 11 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), highlighted that more than 70% of the target population to be vaccinated in Panama has already completed the full immunization schedule against Covid-19.

The OPS bases its report on the report issued by the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI) del Ministry of Health of Panama on the vaccinable population and at the same time highlighted that in Panama at least 57 out of 100 people have complete vaccination schedules and 69% of people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

This makes Panama, according to the OPS, in one of the countries in the region with the highest proportion of the population completely immunized and being above the world average of 50%, mentioned the document with data published by Our World in Data

In this sense, Panama is among the countries of Central America that has reached the largest population with complete schemes for every 100,00 people together with The Savior and second only to Costa Rica, highlighted PAHO.

This international organization also highlighted that the Ministry of Health (Minsa) in order to meet the growing demand, doubled the traceability of positive contacts and thus cut the transmission of the virus, which is why the number of swab stations throughout the country was expanded.

The report indicated that in all the provinces there are more than 20 temporary posts, in addition to the fixed points that operate in the health centers and Polycenters of the Minsa that have been enabled for the diagnosis of swab tests.

Panama Strengthens Diagnostic Tests

In addition, PAHO reviewed, in its biweekly report, that in Panama 1,05,486 tests are carried out per million inhabitants, thus appearing among the countries in the region that since the beginning of the pandemic apply more tests to the population; being surpassed only by four countries: Uruguay (1,300,686), Canada (1,409,880), Chile (1,431,206) and U.S (2,175,367).



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