Santiago: Chile has fully vaccinated 73.65 percent of its target population, or more than 11 million people, in full Covid-19, the Ministry of Health reported.
In a statement Friday, the ministry said that more than 23.5 million doses Covid-19 vaccines have been administered to date, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
“Of these, 471,156 correspond to people who took a single dose (vaccine), 12,361,316 people who had their first dose and 11,195,816 were fully vaccinated,” the ministry said.
Of the total number of people vaccinated since the start of the vaccination process at the beginning of the year, 52.3 percent are women and 47.6 percent are men.
Chile has set a target of vaccinating 80 percent of the country’s total population, or just over 15 million people, as part of its strategy to secure herd immunity.
In addition, scientists are studying the benefits of applying a third-dose vaccine to protect the population.
The South American country reported 2,906 new reports on Friday Covid infections and another 122 deaths, increasing the total infection to 1,582,391 and the death toll to 33,636.
Source: Telangana Today