SAN JOSE, May 3 ― Costa Rica will provide a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to the immunocompromised and to these over 50, the nation’s Health Ministry mentioned yesterday.
The fourth dose can be non-compulsory and will be utilized three months after the third shot, mentioned Dr. Roberto Arroba, secretary of the National Commission for Vaccination and Epidemiology on the Ministry of Health.
More than 85 per cent of the Central American nation’s inhabitants has obtained at the least one shot, whereas 79 per cent have had two doses, and 41 per cent have obtained a 3rd vaccine, in line with official knowledge.
“We have applied more than 10.6 million doses. We are part of the select group of countries in the world that has more than 85 per cent of its population vaccinated with at least one dose,” President Carlos Alvarado mentioned on Monday in his final speech as president.
Costa Rica has registered 852,000 instances of Covid-19 and eight,405 deaths all through the pandemic, in line with knowledge revealed on Friday. ― Reuters
