Ardern thanks Spain for sending 250,000 Pfizer vaccines to New Zealand
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern He thanked the Government of Spain for the management of sending more than 250,000 doses to his country additions to the Pfizer vaccine with which it seeks to strengthen its immunization campaign against -COVID-19.
“We are deeply grateful to Spain for its cooperation and agreement for the sale of these doses to New Zealand. This reaffirms the strong ties between our countries and the spirit of world values shared by New Zealand and Spain. “Ardern said in a statement.
This shipment, which will arrive on friday to Auckland city, adds to the 1.8 million doses of Pfizer that the oceanic country will receive during September, According to the statement from Ardern, who announced that he will announce next week an agreement with another country for the acquisition of more vaccines.
Vaccines arrive while more than 1.6 million Auckland residents are confined by the authorities, the most populated city in the country, by a regrowth linked to the Delta variant and where today 18 new infections have been registered, with which New Zealand accumulates 625 active cases, most of them local infections.
The New Zealand Executive, which has administered the complete guideline to 33% of the target population of the country of more than 5 million inhabitants, intends to finish its immunization campaign before the end of the year to reopen its borders in the first quarter of 2021, which closed in March 2020.
New Zealand, whose government was applauded worldwide for its management of pcovid-19, has accumulated 3,847 covid-19 infections (confirmed and probable) since the beginning of the pandemic, including 27 deaths.
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