Virus surge prompts Chile to lock down capital, despite vaccinating 60pc of the population

On a per capita basis among larger countries, it is the vaccination leader in the Americas and the fifth-highest worldwide, according to Reuters data.

Vaccines are not 100 per cent effective, medical experts pointed out, and there is a time lag before they reach their highest efficacy. Of 7,716 people confirmed as infected with COVID-19 between Wednesday and Thursday, 73 per cent had not been fully inoculated and 74 per cent were under 49 years old, the health ministry said.Dr Cesar Cortes, emergency physician at the University of Chile hospital, said people who stayed home last year were now more afraid of being without work.

Chile's health regulator, the ISP, said genome sequencing of infections between December and June had confirmed the Brazilian P1 variant, also known as Gamma, was the most prevalent in the country and "twice as contagious as the original strain".Chile is now vaccinating teenagers, having offered jabs to older age groups.

So now the last claim AZ was hanging onto -that it will stop severe disease and keep you out of hospital- has been debunked too. Man in Seychelles dies of Covid after 2 doses of AZ. Please take note GregHuntMP

MarieColemanAO Case in point marxdeane ?

How is pc easier to read than %?

The US is using politics to place millions of Venezuelans lives in mortal danger by deliberately stopping they accessing Covit vaccines

Since The Great Purge, Aunty has become a colonial version of the BBC's click bait site. .Sad & concerning

This is bad Aunty. The real point of the story is buried in the last lines - Chile's health system can't cope when more than 10% of popn get seriously ill.Oh & btw..4mill Pfizer ,1millAZ..looks like it's not AZs fault this time 🤔

This is what happens when you use a low efficacy vaccine. mRNA vaccines are the only way out of this pandemic.

Wonder if they are allowing planeloads of dual citizens to fly in from a covid hell hole

The headline should read COVID surges in the unvaccinated population. In fact in the article 73% of all new cases are unvaccinated. And based on USA data new infections are more likely to be hospitalised and die compared to wave 1. Disappointing for the ABC.

Could you imagine Leigh and abc730 if this happened in Victoria!

Lol even Chile have managed to vaccinate 200 times as many people as we have

an_untamed What are they listening to health advice & worried about its ppl, maybe they should listen to the experts we have here, you know those journalists & economists

Wh is your featured image of a needle? Do you not know there are people who are phobic about needles? Do you want to put them off getting vaccinated? This is grossly irresponsible.

Not sure how effective the CoronaVac vaccine is.

Aren't Chile using Sinopharm?

Vaccine is not a cure

But go and get vaccinated

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