Paraguay accepted vaccines that Uruguayans did not want – Nationals

This Friday, Paraguay received 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against covid-19 from the Government of Uruguay, as a donation.

As reported by the Uruguayan media The Observer, This donation was made due to the lack of interest of Uruguayan citizens in receiving doses of AstraZeneca, a drug that received questions for causing some cases of thrombi in various parts of the world.

According to El Observador, Uruguay received in April a first batch of 48,000 doses of AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism, but it only managed to vaccinate less than 43,000 people with them, despite the fact that people were given the possibility of being vaccinated without scheduling. .

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The donation to Paraguay consists of 5,000 doses of that first batch, which were about to expire, along with another 7,000 of another shipment. sent by the Covax mechanism to Uruguay in May.

To date, excluding the 12,000 vaccines sent by Uruguay, our country has received 1,131,000 biological against the coronavirus.

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Of the purchased vaccines, the mechanism Covax sent 304,400 doses; the Russian Direct Investment Fund, sent 104,000 doses of Sputnik V; and the Arab Emirates, 250,000 vaccines Sinopharm.

In donations, Paraguay received: 20,000 vaccines Coronavac, From Chile; 200,000 of Covaxin, from India; 3,000 of Sinopharm from the United Arab Emirates; 99,600 vaccines Modern, from Qatar and 150,000 AstraZeneca, from Mexico.