Step by step: how people over 80 have to do to request a shift starting today and get vaccinated against the coronavirus in CABA

Applications to this group of the population will begin on Monday and will also include those who live in residences for the elderly, who will not have to process the prior application (Photo EFE)

People over 80 years old Those who live in the City of Buenos Aires can now book a shift by phone or online to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, with a view to the start of the campaign that will begin this Monday and that will also include the adults living in homes for the elderly, who will not be required to process any prior registration.

The Buenos Aires government enabled an option at 2 p.m. this Friday within its official website www.buenosaires.gob.ar/coronavirus/vacunacion-covid-19 so that all those interested in this group of the population can request a place to receive, starting next week, a dose against COVID-19.

Moments after going into operation a difficulty arose: the page crashed due to high demand. The system couldn’t handle the revenue stream and the site went down. On social media, some users expressed their anger at the situation.

“Our website is down, due to high demand. We are working to solve it as soon as possible. If you need to request an appointment for vaccination or carry out an urgent procedure, call 147″ Indicated from the Buenos Aires government.

And they added: “If your procedure can wait, We ask that you try to log in again later. Apologize for the inconvenience”.

As detailed by local authorities, shifts will be assigned online or calling 147, the toll-free telephone line made available by the City to make complaints and receive general information. The procedure consists of report personal data and prove residence in the district.

Once this step is completed, the system will allow choose day, time and vaccination center. Finally, they will send an email or a text message on the cell phone of the person who made the procedure, with the corresponding confirmation of the reservation.

When attending the vaccination, you should Bring your DNI and proof of the assigned shift. At the site, the older adult will first have to go to the registration and registration sector, in which all those who arrive to be applied the first component of the vaccine are recorded.

Shifts can be ordered online or by phone.

After vaccination, the health team will take care of a 30 minute observation period on each of the people who were inoculated and later it will inform them of all the recommendations of the case. Before leaving the center, you have to go through the post-vaccination registry, where official certificates are handed out stating that you underwent the first or second dose.

The vaccination centers will be installed in the Historian’s House, Bolívar to 466; the National Scout Office, Freedom to 1282; the Oscoema headquarters, Bernardo de Irigoyen 340; the Recoleta Cultural Center, Junín 1930; the Julián Centeya Cultural Center, in San Juan at 3255; the Station Park, President Perón at 3326; the Club Boca Junior (Social), September 20 and Martin Rodríguez; the Hurricane Club, Avenida Amancio Alcorta to 2570, and Usina del Arte, in Agustín Caffarena 1.

There will also be others at the headquarters of the Club San Lorenzo from Avenida La Plata to 1782; at Club Ferro, Martín de Gainza at 206, in the Italian Club, Rivadavia Avenue at 4731; the Adam Cultural Center of Buenos Aires, Emilio Miter at 975; the South Neighborhood Meeting Civil Association, in Picheuta to 1517; the Roca Park, Coronel Roca Avenue at 4200; the Club Glorias Argentinas, Bragado to 6875, and the Club Velez, Avenida Juan B. Justo at 8900.

The list is completed with the centers located in the Corralón Floresta, Avenida Gaona at 4660; the Club Miter, Segurola to 1332; the Club Racing Villa del Parque, in Nogoyá to 3045; the Communications Club (party room), Avenida San Martín at 5125; the Club Sin Rumbo, in Tamborini at 6157; the Club River Plate, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta at 7598; the Pardes Foundation, Céspedes at 3370; the Day Center N ° 9 and 13, located in Paraguay 5170; the Club Atlanta, Humboldt at 374, door 5; the retired center Everyone together, in Pedro Morán at 2446; the Islamic Center from Avenida Intendente Bullrich to 55; in The Rural, Avenida Sarmiento at 2704; at CEMAR 2, Iriarte to 3501, and in the stadium of San Lorenzo, Avenida Francisco Fernández de la Cruz at 2145.

Shifts will also reopen today for independent healthcare workers who have not yet been vaccinated. On the other hand, on the same Monday, the campaign will also begin to immunize all residents of some 498 homes for the elderly, who do not require completing a prior process, since in this case the operation will be carried out with eight mobile units that will visit those sites to carry out the campaign.

Fernán Quirós detailed how he follows the vaccination plan 

“The vaccination process for those over 80 years of age will take about ten days. In the coming weeks with the arrival of more vaccines we will be able to complete. Those who fail to sign up will be registered and will be called when we have the vaccines “, explained this Thursday the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernan Quirós, in an interview with TN.

Days ago, his peer from the Nation, Ginés González García, he assured that, “if everything goes well, in August, September” the Government will be able to get that “all Argentines are already vaccinated, except those under 18 years of age.”

In this regard, the City official pointed out that this objective “will depend on the arrival of vaccines” and remarked that “there is instability in world production that is very difficult” and that “all (the laboratories) are oversold with vaccines.” .

“We hope that in the next few weeks that issue will be finished because there is a lot of anxiety from everyone in the City to wait for their vaccine. Those that arrive will be applied immediately. We have already applied all the doses of the first delivery and we have already started with those of the second ”, added Quirós.