The Covid-19 vaccination program has continued in various departments around the country as well as every day in a different zone within the nation’s capital city of Managua. Currently the demographic being vaccinated are people over 55 years of age and with chronic diseases. The government continues to stress that its a Voluntary Covid-19 Vaccination Program and is totally free.
This stage of the Voluntary Covid-19 Vaccination Program ends on June 7th 2021. The focus of the vaccination team then shifts back to the application of the second dose of the Covishield vaccine.
MINSA are currently using the 70,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine that was delivered on May 4th 2021. It’s a two dose system and NOT the Sputnik Light single dose, therefore this latest delivery is enough for 35,000 people. (No word yet on when the Russian single-dose “Sputnik Light” will arrive, or if it will be produced here in Managua at the Russian/Nicaragua partnership known as the “Instituto Latinoamericano de Biotecnología Mechniko” (Mechnikov Latin American Institute of Biotechnology).
Note: Those vaccinated by the original donation of 6,000 doses of Sputnik V have by now received their second dose (21 days after the first).
NEXT STAGE
The Ministry of Health (MINSA) has announced that as of Tuesday June 8th 2021, the second dose of the Covishield vaccine will begin to be applied. In order to be fully protected, all those who received the first dose must return to the same location for the second application, 9 weeks after their first dose (as per the vaccination card from the first dose).
It’s assumed that all 167,500 doses of the first Covishield vaccine were used up (out of the total of 335,000 doses donated) during the first round that started in April. That would leave another 167,500 doses for the second application, after which the entire Covishield supply would be exhausted.
(You may recall that to date, a total of 411,000 doses of Covid-19 Vaccines have been delivered to Nicaragua, enough for 205,500 people to receive a double dose.)
All front-line health workers have now received their first vaccination and are in the group that will receive their second vaccination under the Voluntary Covid-19 Vaccination Program starting 8th June 2021.
When can I get vaccinated in Granada?
Salvator, you have asked this question every which way all over facebook and received many a good suggestion. Go to your nearest MINSA clinic and ask them. However, you are a tourist here and you have to be a resident. I know you have various health issues which, if you were a citizen or resident would get you to the front of the line. Good luck.
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