The Ministry of Public Health announced citizens and residents now have until 21 February to get the Covid-19 booster shot. The Ministry had said that as of 31 January the government would require employees and visitors to have the booster shot to enter government premises. About 1.8 million Dominicans of a target population of 7.8 million have received the booster shot.
A recent Yale University study showed that mixing Sinovac or Astra Zeneca with Pfizer has been a plus in combating the Delta variant. Likewise, the fifth wave of Omicron has swept through the country rapidly and now is on decline.
The national average with two doses is 66.2%. 78.5% of the population has at least one dose, yet only 21.9% has three doses. The Ministry of Public Health has enough vaccine stocks to vaccinate the target population, but there has been a generalized slack in people getting the third dose.
The Ministry of Public Health reports in its 24 January 2022 vaccination bulletin that La Altagracia (Punta Cana) leads in population that has received two doses, with 103.5% and 28.1 of the population with the third booster shot. Next follow the National District 95.2% (38.6% booster), Pedernales 82.1% (24.3% booster), La Romana 71.0%, (19.4% booster), San Pedro de Macorís 73.8% (28.2% booster), Dajabón 66.4% (22.8% booster), Puerto Plata 75.2% (27.1% booster) and Espaillat 73.1% (18.8% booster).
The percentages for second dose in other provinces are: Independencia 65.3% (33.4%), Sánchez Ramírez 65.1% (22.3%), Barahona 63.0% (32.1%), Elías Piña 58.7% (34.4%), Monte Plata 64.2% (25.2%), San José de Ocoa 61.8% (24.9%), El Seibo 60.5% (17.8%), Hato Mayor 61.6% (21.6%), Baoruco (64.1% (38.9%), Montecristi 59.7% (18.0%), Santiago 60.2% (18.5%), Samaná 59.9% (17.9%), Peravia 60.0% (18.5%), Santo Domingo 58.7% (15.9%), Azua 58.6% (20.3%), San Cristóbal 58.2% (15.5%), Valverde 60.5% (21.5%), Santiago Rodríguez 600% (20.6%), San Juan de la Maguana 56.8% (25.0%), María Trinidad Sánchez 56.7% (16.6%), La Vega 57.0% (16.1%), Duarte 56.2% (12.9%), Monseñor Nouel 56.1% (12.9%) and Hermanas Mirabal 57.9% (28.1%).
The Dominican Republic has imported 25,790,000 million vaccine since the first shipment of Astra Zeneca vaccines, a 20,000 allotment from India, arrived on 16 February 2021. As reported in Diario Libre, the Ministry of Public Health has a stock of around 11 million doses of vaccines, including AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sinovac.
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31 January 2022