Friday, September 20

From home runs to COVID-19 shots: Dodger Stadium started receiving thousands of visitors

De los jonrones a las vacunas del COVID-19: Dodger Stadium empezó a recibir miles de visitantes

Authorities listen to a press conference near second base at Dodger Stadium.

Photo: IRFAN KHAN / POOL / AFP / Getty Images

This Friday began a new season at the historic Los Angeles Dodger Stadium: the season of the mass vaccination against COVID – 19 .

From home run hits to shots for thousands of Californians at the state’s largest vaccination center and one of the largest in the country in this pandemic, according to the plan announced in recent days. The stadium offers the possibility of speeding up the vaccination process, which has been very slow.

Here are some photos of the first day of Dodger Stadium as a center for mass vaccination.

Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti testify outside the stadium. / EFE
Mayor Eric Garcetti sanitizes the stage before his conference. / EFE
Health workers line up in their cars to be vaccinated. / Getty Images
Actor Sean Penn (left) and Governor Gavin Newsom. / EFE

The objective of the health authorities is that until 12, 000 people are vaccinated per day . To learn about the vaccination process in California there are a number of conditions and also setbacks.

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