$ 41.8 million cost 4.2 million dose of Sputnik

TEGUCIGALPA.

El Honduran Governorate revise the details of the contract submitted by the Russian Federation which will serve for the acquisition of 4.2 million dose of the Sputnik V vaccine to immunize more than 2.1 million Hondurans against the covid19.

The Minister of Finance, Marco Midence, informed that the Russian contract was established in Honduras, but that he was not a company and expressed to the Honduran people that together with Alba Consuelo, Minister of the Health Secretariat, institute revising the contract and that everything is in order. Midence also has a signal that works with the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas (TSC), which together with National Convergence Forum (Fonac) is the owner of the acquisition process.

41.8

Millions of dollars approximately pay the Honduran governing body to acquire the 4.2 million doses.

La Sanitaria Regulatory Agency (Arsa) validated the Russian vaccine and accounted for the response Program Ampliado de Ammunizaciones (PAI) and the National Advisory Council on Immunization.

The Minister of Health express that soon there will be known will be the calendar of immunization at the national level.

Followed by Finances, for this March, a lot of 160,000 doses will be evacuated, to immunize 80,000 employees in the health sector who are at risk of infection with the virus.

Sputnik V

1- The first vaccine was registered worldwide on the basis of a test platform based on human adenoviral vectors. More than 31,000 volunteers participated in the ensayo clínico posterior al registro en Rusia.
2- The vaccine has been registered in 45 countries including Honduras. Produced by India, Brazil, China and Corea del Sur.
3- Here is the number of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik 1 in 1957.

Carlos Madero, General Coordinator, informs that for the finals of this month it is likely that there will be a combination of entrances, for a load of 48,000 vacancies of the Covax mechanism and for another lad the first lot of the vacancies Sputnik V.

Madero informs that the price at which it is buying each dose of vaccine is lower than 10 dollars (L241), so that the total price for immunizing each hundred roses the L482 to make a total of 1,011 million lempiras ($ 41 , 8 million) to purchase the 4.2 million dose.

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The sputnik V vaccine holder has been informed of this by the scientists who developed it.

Madero expressed that questions of confidentiality could not reveal the exact price of the vacuna, hasta que la Russian Federation lo permita.

“The price is universal, it does not vary in any part of the world. It is a price to stand independently of the volume of vacancies that it is necessary to acquire, ”he said.

The coordinator of Gobierno increase the management of Marco Tulio Medina, Franciso Herrera y el Gobierno de Nicaragua para que el país tuviera acceso a la vacuna. “It is essential for the Hondurans, it means to be able to regain the normalcy that it has before,” he said.

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