Chile heads back into coronavirus lockdown despite massive vaccination campaign with Sinovac vaccine

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Chile’s big coronavirus vaccine bet on China’s Sinovac shots. Chile hopes to reach herd immunity by the middle of the year and is nearly halfway to vaccinating its entire population. The Chinese made Sinovac vaccine has played a major part in the campaign, despite not releasing final phase data.

“This Monday the most restrictive measures to stop contagions begin to take effect: curfew at 9 p.m. and border closures

On this day, the borders will be closed for at least 30 days, and the curfew will begin at 9:00 p.m., extending until 5 a.m. There will also be new limitations to essential activities, where by essential good will be understood those essential goods for subsistence, telework, real estate security, distance education.

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** This post was originally published on April 5, 2021 **