Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The 48 mil dose of antiviral vacancies from AstraZeneca, as part of the donation of the Covax mechanism, will take place this Saturday in Honduras, procedures from Korea of Sur.
The vacancy lot took place at 8:00 a.m., in a commercial flight, and was received by the President of the Republic, Juan Orlando Hernández, en la Base Aérea Hernán Acosta Mejía, de Tegucigalpa.
This first lot of vacancies forms part of the 139 miles 200 doses Honduras will receive in March, according to the Director General of the World Health Organization (OMS), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus, informs the President Hernández in an office revealed this week by the Honduran authorities.
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Total, Covax announces a lottery of 424,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine for Honduras to be recovered between March and May.
With the legacy of these first vacancies that Honduras receives in donation quality from Covax / Gavi, the Baclan Nacional de Vacunación Gratuita there will be a follow-up to the staffing of the first line front of the pandemic.
In addition to health workers, major adults of 60 years, the population with comorbidities and essential workers of the economy form part of the groups prioritized by this evacuation plan.
Distribution
It was announced by the Minister of Health, Alba Consuelo Flores, homeowner realizes the distribution of vacancies to the sanitary regions of the country, including the Islands of Bahia and Gracias a Dios, to be transported by the Fuerza Aérea Hondureña (FAH).
The rest are transports to land transport units based on freezing systems to maintain the quality of the vacancies.
Honduras accounted for holiday caddies in the central grocery store and 10 shopping centers, with which 9.4 million can be dispensed of vacant.
The pharmacy for the covid-19 of the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical is a vacuna monovalent compound composed of a single adenovirus of recombinant chimpanzee deficient replenishment (ChAdOx1) that encodes the glycoprotein S of SARS CoV 2.
Of interest
Covax has indicated that in Honduras, with the first lot of vacant against the covid-19 that the country pays, it starts to immunize up to 3% of the population, and that it will continue with other periodic endowments up to 20% of the population, forecast for the end of 2021.