Ecuador received this Saturday 700,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine against covid-19, of which 200,000 correspond to a donation and the rest to direct purchase, reported the Vice President of the Republic.
The medicine was received at the Mariscal Sucre airport in Quito by the vice president of Ecuador, Alfredo Borrero; the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón; the Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Mauricio Montalvo; the itinerant Ad Honoren Ambassador, Juan Carlos Holguín and the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Chen Guoyou.
“For the Government of President Guillermo Lasso, today is a special day because two friendly governments, the Chinese and Ecuadorian, come together to combat this disease that has no ideology, that has no flag, or color, the covid-19,” he stressed the vice president.
Regarding the relationship between Ecuador and the People’s Republic of China, Borrero pointed out that it will be deepened, maintained and improved. “We started this government doing things as they should be done,” he concluded.
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Ambassador Chen Guoyou announced that 500,000 more doses of the Sinovac vaccine are expected to arrive in June.
“We want to strengthen the vaccine cooperations between China and Ecuador to help President Guillermo Lasso’s plan to vaccinate 9 million people in 100 days,” he said.
For her part, the Minister of Health indicated that the link where the date and place of vaccination can be verified is in the testing phase so that on Monday it works perfectly and starts with the Vaccination Plan.
Since the presidential campaign, Lasso – who took office last Monday – offered to vaccinate nine million people in the first 100 days of government.
Ecuador registered 1,576 new cases of covid-19 this Saturday and accumulates 424,741 positives since there are records of the pandemic, while it brings together 20,485 total deaths, after adding 77 deaths, the Ministry of Health reported.
The number of confirmed deaths reaches 15,024, to which are added 5,461 probable deaths from the disease, the Health Portfolio specified in its daily report.
The province of Pichincha, whose capital is Quito, is the most affected by the pandemic with 151,002 accumulated cases, 579 new compared to Friday, followed by the Guayas coast, with Guayaquil head, with 57,183 infections, 327 additional.
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