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The Comptroller General has warned that there are more than 4,440,000 doses of the COVID1-19 vaccine, from Moderna and AstraZeneca laboratories, distributed nationwide that have an expiration date between November and next December. He indicated that this situation generates the risk of loss of these products and that there is an alteration of state resources.
According to announcementthe Trade Orientation Report 055-2022-OCI/5991/SOOas of September 30, 2022, the National Center for the Supply of Strategic Health Resources (Cenares), located in the district of Jesús María, had in its warehouse 4 million 143 thousand doses from the laboratory Modern which they will begin to expires between November 27 and December 13; while the 297 thousand doses from the Astrazeneca laboratorymay expire in 20 and 27 December not to be inoculated in a timely manner.
| LABORATORY | DEADLINE | NUMBER OF DOSES |
|---|---|---|
| Modern (adult) | November 2022 (days 27 and 28) December 2022 (days 1, 4, 5, 7 and 13) |
681,900 3,461,500 |
| AstraZeneca | December 2022 (days 20, 22, 26 and 27) |
297,000 |
| TOTAL | 4’440,400 |
The Comptroller clarified in the report that These figures do not include the 2,400,000 doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine, which the Peruvian government donated to the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health last September, with a deadline of 2022..
“This donation is made at times when evidence of a downward trend in the vaccination rate and there is a significant number of Peruvian citizens, especially children aged 0 to 12, who have not completed their vaccination program against COVID-19″says the Controller.
According to official data from the Ministry of Health (Minsa), published in REUNIS, as of November 20, 2022, the first dose was applied to 93.90% of the target adult population, with the second dose covering 90.14%. third dose, at 73.33%, and with the fourth dose, at 22.84%. In the case of the pediatric vaccine, 48.71% of the target pediatric population received the first dose, 38.72% received a second dose and only 13.70% completed the third dose.
Faced with the risk of starting a fifth wave of infections from COVID-19 in the fortnight of Decemberas MINSA predicted, the Comptroller General urged citizens to do so go to vaccination centersto complete your inoculation scheme.
The Controller specified that the supreme supervisory body communicated the results of the decision to the General Management of Cenares control service 055-2022-OCI/5991/SOO in order to present the corrective and preventive measures it will adopt to avoid the expiry of vaccines against COVID-19.
