Tomorrow (Sunday) 1 million vaccines against covid-19 from China arrive in our country. This one million vaccines are part of a batch purchased by the Government of El Salvador from the company Sinovac, one of the largest vaccine manufacturers in the world. ” President Nayib Bukele.
The vaccine shipment is scheduled to arrive in the country early Sunday morning and Bukele assured that the flight was already on its way to the country. The shipment consists of 833 boxes that will take two hours to unload. 14 trucks will be needed to transport the vaccines.
“Starting tomorrow, we will have sufficient quantities of vaccines for all adults and people with chronic diseases. We will begin with their vaccination on Thursday, April 15,” Bukele reported.
According to the president, by then “we will have already vaccinated 100% of the health and administrative personnel (public and private), civil protection personnel, firefighters, police, military, educational and administrative personnel in the educational field and journalists “.
The vaccines were purchased by the Salvadoran government from the Chinese pharmaceutical company. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.
105,800VaccinesThey had arrived in the country as of Saturday, 20,000 were bought and the rest donated by the Covax mechanism. They were from AstraZeneca and Pfizer BioNTech.
70MillionsPeople around the world have received the Sinovac vaccine, including Latin American countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Chile.
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Two doses
The Coronavac vaccine is manufactured by the Chinese company Sinovac and it is built on a virus-inactivated platform. According to its creators, it has been shown to be effective and safe in preventing the disease caused by Sars-CoV-2 in adults.
To achieve this, it requires two doses of 0.5 milliliters each with an interval of between 14 and 28 days.
The Chinese vaccine also It can be stored at normal refrigerator temperatures of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius and can be stable for up to three years.
According to Sinovac, 70 million people around the world have received this vaccine. Among the Latin American countries that have acquired it are Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Researchers in Turkey and Brazil found that the Sinovac vaccine It is 83.5 percent effective against Covid-19 infections with one or more symptoms, or just over 50 percent against infections with or without symptoms.
The other two vaccines that have been applied in the country, AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech, have an efficiency of 79% and 95% respectively.
El Salvador has received 105,080 vaccines so far, of which 20,000 were from the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca bought by the government and 85,080 donated by the Covax mechanism supported by funding from the European Union, Canada and Japan, among others. This first batch, which arrived in the country on February 17, was applied to first-line health personnel, who have direct contact with covid-19 patients.
A second batch of AstraZeneca arrived in the country on March 11 – 33,600 vaccines came – donated by the Covax mechanism and came from South Korea. This second batch began to be applied to first-line health personnel who did not have direct contact with covid-19 patients.
On March 22, 51,480 vaccines arrived from the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, also donated by Covax. The third batch is being applied to non-medical front-line personnel, including 21,000 police officers and 29,000 military personnel, civil protection personnel, and prison guards.
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