About 13,400 people will receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Puerto Rico

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The State Secretary of Health, Iris Cardona, reported this this morning since last Tuesday to today, Friday, some 13,400 people have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 on the island.

According to the official, all the first doses of the drug developed by Pfizer and BioNTech that arrived on Tuesday have already been distributed among the 65 hospitals on the island. The official said they could also take the vaccine to a number of medical care centers.

“We started distributing vaccines on Tuesday, today we are on the fourth day. Of the 30,225 doses that arrived in Puerto Rico, they had already been distributed in hospitals and even some primary care centers, and of those, up to yesterday afternoon, according to hospital information, about 13,400 doses were in the arms of professionals. Of health “Cardona said in a radio interview (WKAQ 580).

The doctor added that they have no adverse situations or reports of unusual reactions as a result of the administration of the vaccine.

“Of the 13,000 doses administered between Tuesday and Wednesday, we have no major situations so far”the officer said.

He, in turn, explained that in order to know if there were any reactions to the vaccines injected yesterday, it is necessary to wait 24 hours.

There is the fourth day of the immunization process.

In addition, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (also today) could approve the pharmaceutical vaccine Moderna, giving it a second product to inoculate the population against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine was found to be 95% effective in clinical trials, while Moderna’s was 94.1% effective, experts said. Both require the patient to receive two doses.

The Department of Health this Friday reported 1,250 confirmed positive cases of the virus, so the total of the results in this line comes to 63,075.

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