Miami, United States.
The Covid-19 vaccination centers in Florida are preparing to receive a larger number of people starting Monday, when anyone over 18 years old State residents will have access to immunization.
April 5th is the date from which only children and adolescents are excluded from the vaccination in this southern state, the third number of cases and the fourth number of deaths from the new coronavirus across the country.
But there are even places where people over the age of 16 can get vaccinated, such as Hard Rock Stadium, located on the outskirts of Miami.
“We expect a very busy week with the new (vaccination) criteria,” in Florida, Mike Jachels, spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has vaccination centers for Miami, told Miami television station NBC 6. .
To date, 9.7 million vaccines have been delivered in Florida, 6.3 million first doses and 3.4 million secondAccording to figures from the State Department of Health, which has more than 21 million residents.
Healthcare workers
Vaccination began in Florida in mid-December and first of all the health workers on the front lines of the fight against Covid-19 and people over 65, both those living in senior housing and those living at home.
Since March 1, there are in Florida more than 2.1 million cases and 34,000 deaths from Covid-19.
According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2,351 cases of the disease have been recorded in Florida. “British” variant of Covid-19, 55 from the “Brazilian” and 16 from the “South African”.