The Mayagüez City Council and its mayor José Guillermo Rodríguez have been coordinating for days, in collaboration with senior officials of the National Guard of Puerto Rico, the start of the vaccination against Covid-19 in this city, which will also involve residents of neighboring cities.
The plans are designed so that the Covid-19 vaccination center in Mayagüez will be operational from mid-January 2021, once the National Guard has determined whether it will operate from the facilities of the Isidoro García Stadium or the Recreation Palace. and sports of this city.
A meeting was held a few days ago led by the mayor Rodríguez, the city administrator, Reinaldo Torres, the epidemiologist Yadira Guilloty and senior officials of the National Guard (GN), who are in charge of the vaccination process in which a series of agreements were made to pushed forward.
They are expected to travel to Mayagüez in the coming days to visit both facilities and determine if they meet the requirements, although in a recent radio interview in which Mayor Rodríguez and General Reyes agreed, it appears they are heading to the area of the Isidoro García Stadium.
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Both Mayor Rodríguez and General Reyes stated that the massive influenza vaccination carried out in a car in the facilities of the Isidoro García Stadium a few weeks ago served as a trial of the logistics and operation performed.
We are letting General Reyes know that, as during the flu vaccination, we will provide him with the resources of Emergency Management, Medical Emergency, municipal police and personnel needed for the Covid-19 vaccination. Mayor Rodríguez said in written statements stressing “we are close to the vaccine. “
As General Reyes told Mayor Rodríguez, vaccination has begun in other regions because Mayagüez and Aguadilla are not among the highest incidences of reported cases, according to the study conducted.
In addition, the amount of vaccines that have arrived in Puerto Rico is not enough to affect the 11 regions where vaccination will be performed simultaneously in the coming weeks.