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Rodrigo Cháves, president of Costa Rica, on the covid-19 vaccine contract: “If we give details we can end up in jail”

the president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chavez, announced last Wednesday the end of compulsory covid vaccination. He also pointed out that an investigation has been opened into the contracts signed between the previous government and the pharmaceutical industry for the purchase of viral drugs.

“We are going to investigate why they bought so many vaccines when the information was that the market had been saturated,” the president announced.

He notes that “millions of dollars” worth of vaccines were bought at the time the vaccination rate was falling. And he points out that now they will have “I don’t know how much money probably wasted on vaccines that are not going to be used and are going to expire (expire)”.

“If we give details of the contract we can end up in jail”

The president also stated that if they give details of the contract they could end up in jail. He explains it by pointing out that this would happen because they would be “violating a contract drawn up by the daughter of the former president Luis Guillermo Solis, a very good lawyer because she represented Pfizer and a bubble does not come out of that. He is sealed ».

Regarding the confidentiality of the contract signed between the State and the pharmaceutical company, Chaves pointed out that “it can give the perception that such an absolute level of secrecy hides the need to keep things in the dark.”

Pfizer and Costa Rica

The previous government, headed by Charles Alvaradosigned contracts for the acquisition of vaccines against covid with Pfizer and with AstraZeneca. The latter complied with its deliveries, as established in the contract.

However, in the case of Pfizerthe Previous government decided on April 7 that it was going to reorganize the strategy for receiving the vials. Pfizer’s vaccine deliveries were then suspended until today. The pharmaceutical company has not returned the money proportional to the vaccines not delivered.

Contracts signed with the company Pfizer they closed on the delivery of 6 million in the first place, and in second place, 3.5 million doses. Until the date ofOn April 7, 7 million have been delivered. Not one more.

“Forcing to vaccinate to spend the vaccines”

The current Minister of Health, Joselyn Chacón, announced this Thursday the elimination of the compulsory nature of vaccines against covid. And he has explained that in his opinion, “forcing people to get vaccinated (was done) to spend the vaccines.”

In addition, legally, the strategy used to eliminate the mandate has been to denounce the nullity of the decisions made by the National Vaccination Commission since 2020. The cause of the nullity of the decisions taken is that two of its members had their appointments expired, so the issuance of their decisions could not bind the body.

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