President Iván Duque reported this Sunday that at 8:40 p.m. on a Beijing-Paris-Bogotá flight, 547,880 doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine against covid-19 arrived.
These vaccines are in addition to the 958. doses of Sinovac that arrived in the country on Saturday around 2:30 pm.
It is expected that in this way the mass vaccination process will take shape and cover all the workers of the first line of the health system and that coverage will also be achieved for older adults over eighty years of age and thus continue to advance in the goal of immunizing 70 percent of the country’s population.
Today, at 8:40 pm, 547,880 vaccines from Sinovac arrived in the country. We completed more than 2 million biologicals that we are dispersing throughout the national territory. The pandemic has left us a difficult year, but we will advance in the goal of immunizing more than 70% of compatriots. pic.twitter.com/aJeDTmpEv1
– Iván Duque ???????? (@IvanDuque) March 8, 2021
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Although in recent days there have been images of some older adults who have already received the first dose of the vaccine, especially in Bogotá, so far most of the biologicals have been destined to be applied to health personnel who have dedicated themselves to attend to those infected with the virus in the first line.
“We have not yet begun mass vaccination of people over 80. With the vaccines that arrive this week, we will begin to massively cover that population,” said the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz.
In the case of Bogotá, it is expected that by today, as stated by the mayor Claudia López, “all the medical and assistance personnel of the 71 hospitals in Bogotá will have 100 percent their first dose of vaccine.”
And starting tomorrow, the District will enable four public arenas and two private points (Movistar Arena and Hospital San Ignacio), to begin the vaccination of more than 170,000 older adults.
“Clearly there is still an installed application capacity that we are not using. The expectation is to apply much more than 100 thousand, I think we should apply about 200 thousand daily vaccines, and that implies extramural growth because in the second phase we will surely have to start applying outside the health services ”, Explained Minister Ruiz, in an interview with Colprensa.
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