El Salvador enables the fourth dose of the covid-19 vaccine

San Salvador, 18 Mar The Government of El Salvador enabled this Friday the inoculation of a fourth dose of the vaccine against covid-19 for people over 12 years old, according to the Presidency's social networks. “El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make available to everyone over 12 years of age the fourth dose against #COVID19,” he said on social networks. He indicated that it is voluntary, free of charge and is also “available to foreigners” from 90 days after the third dose was placed. The Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, said on his Twitter account that the country has the necessary vaccines “to continue this important strategy that protects and saves lives.” El Salvador has placed 10,307,278 vaccines against covid-19, of which 4,577,641 are first doses and 4,275,527 belong to a second dose, while 1,454,110 are third inoculation. At the end of December 2021, lot 52 of vaccines against covid-19 arrived in El Salvador and the country reached 15,604,580 doses received. Authorities recorded 160,942 official cases during the pandemic, of which 4,107 people died, 140,603 recovered and 16,232 are “active”. Added to this data are 5,688 suspected cases, a figure in which the Government has been including people with symptoms and tested for antigen who test positive for the coronavirus. Authorities in El Salvador have recognized three waves of infections since March 2020. The first wave of infections, according to an official source recently, lasted three months and took place between May and August 2020. The second wave lasted four months, between January and April 2021, and the third wave was recorded between June and the first days of November, without government authorities warning publicly at the time. However, El Salvador experienced its most contagious stage between January and February 2022, reporting up to 972 cases in a single day. This is the highest figure recorded in this country during the entire pandemic.