Honduras obtained a new donation of 149,760 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the Swiss federal government by way of the COVAX system to carry on preserving Hondurans from this disease.
The inoculants ended up sent in two shipments and entered the National Warehouse of Biologicals of the Expanded System on Immunizations (PAI).
This is the very first donation of vaccines against COVID-19 that the Swiss authorities tends to make to Honduras, through the Covax mechanism, in a gesture of brotherhood with Hondurans.
The Undersecretary of Wellbeing, Suani Montalván, expressed that “on behalf of the Minister of Health, Manuel Matheu, we thank the brother government of Switzerland for this vaccine donation that lets us to continue with the immunization of Hondurans against COVID-19 and this way they are protected towards extreme kinds of the disorder.
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“From the Ministry of Overall health we invite Hondurans to go to the different vaccination factors licensed for vaccination against COVID-19 to comprehensive their program with the initial dose, the second dose and the initially booster,” he reported.
He added that men and women more than the age of 40 can now utilize their second reinforcement, readily available at far more than 1,600 accredited web pages nationwide, and the to start with COVID-19 reinforcement is now prepared for children ages 5 to 11. , five months immediately after applying the second dose.
For its component, the representative of the Pan American Health and fitness Business (PAHO), Piedad Huerta, stated that “COVID-19 is still current in the entire world and right here, exactly where we emphasize the maintenance of the proposed prevention steps, making use of them properly can halt the transmission of this virus, this is not the time to allow our guard down, we need to just take treatment of ourselves and our liked types towards this ailment ”.
To date, the place has been given a complete of 7,277,810 doses of COVID-19 vaccines via the Covax system, demonstrating the ongoing determination of companion nations around the world to present equivalent entry to vaccines in the nations of the Americas. (DS)
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