“The installed capacity today in Paraguay is 30,000 doses per day, which is the maximum that can be inoculated. We are proposing to the government a two day holiday, plus a weekend; that is to say, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and in those four days apply 125,000 doses with everything we have planned so that in four days we can inoculate 500,000 Paraguayans, “said Harrison, regarding the proposal made to the government to accelerate the application of these doses.
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Clarifies that in regards to vaccines PfizerWe must talk about 2 million doses in total: half donated by the United States and the other million bought by Paraguay, still without an arrival date.
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“The important decision that the health authority will have to make is whether of this million doses (donated), plus the million that we will eventually bring (purchased), we inoculate that to 2 million Paraguayans with a single dose or if it inoculates a million Paraguayans with the full dose ”, he pointed out about the prerogative that this situation establishes.
Unlike other vaccines that are normally protected in the Expanded Program of Immunizations (PAI), in this case the Polyclinic was selected by Pfizer itself to be in charge of the storage, custody and transfer of the doses to the vaccination centers, since The use of Ultrafreezer is required, that is, special equipment that guarantees the freezing conditions of the doses.
“On Tuesday the calendar for the arrival of the vaccines will be announced, the logistics system is all prepared, we have the Ultrafreezers fully prepared and validated, all the personnel trained and everything coordinated with the PAI,” added Harrison, commenting that they hope that The government pointed out the one announcing the specific day of arrival of the vaccines. The required infrastructure was the responsibility of the private company, and no cost was established for the State.
The Pfizer vaccines from the platform is, for example, the one that was used successfully in Israel, for example, one of the countries that first decreed deconfinement in its territory.
