The country will receive the joint benefit of Bolivia and other South American nations. The Bolivian president confirmed that his country would receive the first doses in February.
Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and El Salvador will be the first countries to receive the vaccine against the COVID-19, free of charge and under the COVAX mechanism, so that they will know the sabbath of the United Nations.
The Bolivia Center for the Information of Organizations, communicating through it, states that the three South American and Central American nations were selected to be in the first round of distribution with the citation mechanism.
The statement states that Bolivia will receive “one million donation-quality vacancies, 92,430 doses from Pfizer and 900,000 doses from AstraZeneca”, but there are no detailed doses he has assigned initially to the other three nations.
“This will be the first lot to receive the country has completed the dose number to cover 20% of the Bolivian population,” said the entity to celebrate the new good for Bolivians.
Explaining this, the COVAX mechanism is a global alliance for the acquisition and equitable distribution of vacancies COVID-19, led by the Coalition for Innovation in the Prevention of Epidemics (CEPI), Gavi and the Panamerican Organization of the International Organization Hello.
The Alliance is working in association with the manufacturers of the vacancies, the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), the World Bank, civil society organizations, among others.
In agreement with the Foreign Service Information Center of the United Nations in Bolivia, the COVAX mechanism has taken the 6th of January the opportunity to express its interest in accessing a limited initial volume of an ultra-free cadence of Pfizer / BioNTech and Bolivia are among the first to send their proposal to 72 other candidates.
Bolivia will receive through COVAX an integral technical and financial cooperation for its Amplification Program (PAI), with the finalization of the holiday cadence required for the maneuvering of the vacancy; capacitoran to his health personnel in his use and maintenance; as well as in the actions of information, communication and social mobilization to promote the importance of the vaccine.
The Bolivian president, Luis Arce Catacora, in a message sent to the public, informed that the first lot of vacancies against the COVID-19 by means of the COVAX mechanism will be received in February.
“I can only say that we have received the response to the work done, the issue has been enormously positive. In February, we will receive a million vacancies, ”he said.
The best theme:
These will be the requirements for evacuation against the COVID-19 in El Salvador
Can women be embarrassed to receive the Covid-19 vaccine? OMS of a new giro in recommendations for its use
12 points that you need to know about the evacuation against COVID-19 in El Salvador