Eight hundred (800) members of the General Corps of Voluntary Firefighters of Peru were recently vaccinated against COVID-19 at Andres Avelino Caceres Sports Complex in Lima's peripheral Villa Maria del Triunfo district —a Pan American Games site run by the
They are personnel based in the capital city's Breña, San Miguel, Jesus Maria, and Magdalena del Mar, as well as Cercado districts, who arrived at the site to be inoculated by Health Ministry brigades.
The
Legacy Project —an entity attached to the
Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC)— provides logistical support to this immunization process —as commissioned by the Government— by opening the venues that had hosted the best athletes on the continent during the Lima 2019 Pan American and Parapan American Games.
Optimal, spacious, and safe space
The men and women in red —who gathered at this Lima 2019 venue— were grateful and amazed, after having received their doses in an optimal, spacious, and safe space given its outdoor areas.
"This sports complex complies with all biosafety regulations. The process has been very fast," said Brigadier Gonzalo Castillo.
On her part, firefighter Gabriela Mendoza highlighted the fluidity of the process.
"All sanitary standards are met (...)," she commented.
The
Legacy Project is a strategic ally of health authorities in the South American country to face the COVID-19 pandemic, transcending the sport fields and thinking about the population's well-being.