Chili has all over the world these days. The South American country has become the Latin American champion in the vaccination against COVID-19 and is among the first five nations to carry out the vaccination against the virus.
Since the start of its massive holiday campaign in February, Chile has seen more than 25% of its global population rise just behind Israel, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. And this nation of 19 million people has as much as 80% of its inhabitants immunized by the end of June.
What is the purpose of Chile’s exit?
Officials and experts say that the explanation is in temporary and simultaneous negotiations with various pharmaceuticals, contacts with some companies and a solid evacuation system that covers the totality of the 4,000 kilometers of its territory.
During the first months of the pandemic, in 2020, the headlines eran that Chile was converted into one of the most affected countries by the virus in the region, only between Brazil and Peru, and abundant criticism of the authorities to be incapacitated de ubicar y mantener aislada a la gente para avoid propaganda del COVID-19.
At the same time, without embarrassment, there is another story that some people are talking about, that has taken place many weeks ago and that time has been spent helping to ensure rapid access to the vacancies.
The Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, told The Associated Press that the formal negotiations with the pharmaceutical companies will take place in April, a month after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. For mayo, comment, the habian presented to President Sebastián Piñera a road trip with some plans to acquire the vacancies a time that takes place unrolled, and is therefore considered the participation of the pais in the clinical trials.
Pero a part of history to follow the vacancies will be repaired in October 2019, in China, two months ago that the Asian nation will announce the first cases of the new coronavirus. Ese mes, the doctor Alexis Kalergis, biochemist and director of Instituto Milenio in Immunology and Immunotherapy of the Catholic University, attended a meeting of Chilean colleagues at an international conference on immunology in Beijing.
Here we meet with various expert colleagues, including some of the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech Ltd, who will be very serious about the development of the vaccine against the new coronavirus.
When China announced in the year 2020 that it had identified a new virus, Kalergis thought of Sinovac’s experts as living in Beijing and contacting contacts.
“We work in vacancies and know that the type of health insurance that is required for this type of nursing is precisely the vacancies”, said Kalergis to the AP. “And approving the experience, contacts and interests that we will demonstrate when we establish ourselves, as we initiate conversations with Sinovac.”
The immunologist said he was talking to the rector of the Catholic University, Ignacio Sánchez, about the need to involve the governor. Sanchez met with officials from the Ministries of Health, Scientists and the Chancellery, who explained the need to initiate formal negotiations on possible issues. Entries read April and initiate the negotiations.
Rodrigo Yáñez, Subsidiary of International Economic Relations, led the negotiations. According to the AP principle, it is agreed to deal with distinct companies, laboratories and global institutions, such as the UN, and will always be able to do so.
“The core of Chile’s evacuation program and its evacuation strategy is precisely its pragmatism and flexibility,” the AP said. Always search, add, “Distinguish alternatives and do not put all the dogs in the same canvas”.
In June, much earlier than any Latin American country, Chile had secured a contract with Sinovac, which was compromised to make preferential agreements one time that the vacancy would be authorized, according to Kalergis.
In addition, in December 2020, Chile participated in the clinical trials of the Sinovac vaccine with 2,300 people, in its Medical Staff Mayor. The South American nation also participated in the trials of AstraZeneca, Janssen and CanSino, another Chinese pharmaceutical.
Currently, Chile has 35 million that dose. Until now, Sinovac has promised 14 million doses, Pfizer 10.1 million and AstraZeneca four million, in addition to which the government acquired another 7.8 million through the Covax international mechanism, which looked at the equitable access of the world. Currently, the authorities have invested 200 million dollars and are estimated to inject 100 million more.
In Chile, it has been reported that last week 20,000 doses of Sinovac were delivered to Paraguay and the same number in Ecuador, for use by health personnel.
For Yáñez, the Chilean chief negotiator, “it is perfectly possible that the country also has some kind of article and triangle… supporting the management of other countries that have no capacity to manage it”.
No Latin American country has ever visited a country like Chile. Very close to Brazil, with 4% of its population in Argentina, with around 3%.
At the moment, the Chinese dose is reflected in the pillar of the Chilean evacuation program.
The country received in December a little over 21,000 doses of Pfizer, less than the benefits, and commenced to evacuate health workers. But in the first quarter the first four million Sinovac vacancies will be accelerated.
On February 3, the massive evacuation and from which Chile arrived evacuated more than 100,000 people, although this week saw the record of 415,000 immunized in a single day.
Wednesday, the country also raises the global record of 1.3 vacancies for 100 residents, followed by Israel, with 1,04 doses, according to the records of “Our World in Data”, a platform developed in conjunction with investigators Universidad de Oxfors and the organization fine the lucro “Global Change Data Lab”.
Chile has registered 885,000 cases confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic and more than 21,500 failures.
“Chile’s primary health care system is the most important in Latin America” and during the evacuation process “demonstrated its absolute strength”, said the AP doctor Mercedes López Nitsche, Director of the Faculty of Immunology, Faculty of the University of Chile Medicine and the Nucleo Milenio National Program of Immunology and Immunotherapy.
This is not the first time that Chile has demonstrated the strength of its evacuation system: between March and April 2020, while the virus is being spread around the world, the evacuation of millions of people against the flu.
The Deputy Director of the Pan-American Organization of Health, Jarbas Barbosa, attributed the Chilean exit to “it is an all-encompassing country” and said “a good planning and use of an intelligent way of doing things to achieve good results” .
Mario Patiño, an employee of a 75-year-old travel agency, was one of those who received in February the first dose of Sinovac in Lo Padro, a common town on the outskirts of Santiago.
“It was all perfect, very fast, an excellent, well-organized attention,” said the man, who had ten days before receiving his second dose at the end of the week. In order to do so, it will receive the meaning of the word “be more quiet”.