This is how the vaccination against covid-19 is progressing in Guatemala five months after it began – Prensa Libre

From that date, until the last report of the Ministry of Health on Saturday, July 31, Guatemala accumulated 368,484 cases of coronavirus and 10,339 deaths from the disease.

Active infections are also another alarming data, because according to the latest report, it already adds up to 36,313.

In the midst of this situation, Guatemalans go to vaccination centers against covid-19 to protect themselves from the disease.

However, the arrival of doses purchased by Guatemala has become somewhat difficult with the questioned contract made with Russia to obtain the Sputnik V vaccine.

Questioned contract with Russia

On July 27 just last, President Alejandro Giammattei and the Minister of Health, María Amelia Flores, reported that they had managed to renegotiate the contract for the purchase of the 16 million doses of Sputnik V vaccines, for which the country has already paid. 50%.

On July 28, they arrived in the country one hundred thousand doses más from the Sputnik V vaccine, as part of the Guatemalan government’s purchase from Russia.

With that batch, the country adds 960 thousand doses of vaccines received by the contract.

While the wait for more doses of the Russian vaccine continues, the contribution of donations has allowed Guatemalans to access the vaccine against covid-19.

Vaccination begins

It was the afternoon of February 25, 2021, when Magdalena Guevara González, 46, became the first person in Guatemala to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, with one of the five thousand doses of the Modern Pharmaceutical that Israel donated.

Donations continued, allowing more Guatemalans the opportunity to be vaccinated.

It should be noted that India and Mexico have also made donations. The largest dose donation has been made by the United States with 4.5 million doses of Moderna.

In total, Guatemala has a donation of 4 million 856 thousand 600 vaccines, this data includes the donation that Spain will make of 201 thousand 600 doses of AstraZeneca.

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While Guatemala has bought 1,181,600 vaccines between the doses from Russia and the Covax mechanism, according to Health data.

80% are donated

In total, Guatemala has received 6 million 38 thousand 200 doses of vaccine against covid-19, of these, 80.43% are donated and 19.56% are purchased.

This is how Guatemala goes

EFE recently reported that with a population of 16.3 million inhabitants, Guatemala has a low vaccination rate in the American continent, according to official records and international organizations.

Vaccination data

These are the data on the number of people vaccinated in the Health report on Saturday, July 31.

• 1 million 774 thousand 324 people vaccinated with the first dose.
• 333,848 vaccinated with complete scheme
• Number of doses administered. 2 million 108 thousand 172

The following picture from the site Our World in Data shows the proportion of the total population that has been fully vaccinated against covid-19 in Guatemala.

This represents the part that has received all the doses prescribed by the vaccination protocol. If a person receives the first dose of a 2-dose vaccine, this metric remains the same. If they receive the second dose, the metric increases by 1.

Until July 30, 2021, the site records that Guatemala has vaccinated 1.9% of its population.

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