This Sunday they arrived in Colombia the 3.5 million Moderna vaccines donated by the United States Government.
The Colombian Government, through a specialized logistics operator, transported and nationalized these vaccines that are arriving in the country today.
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These vaccines are from the messenger RNA platform, which constitutes last generation biologics and, to date, the evidence reports an excellent efficacy and safety profile.
This way, Colombia completes 35,371,324 doses of vaccines, including 2.1 million that were acquired by the private sector.
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This donation occurs within the framework of the close bilateral relationship of both governments and, to a great extent, the capacity of the country to receive and quickly apply vaccines throughout the national territory.
In this regard, the President of the Republic, Iván Duque Márquez, pointed out that this is a moment of great joy and “We received this wonderful gesture, an extremely important donation to continue facing covid-19”, highlighting that a proportion of these vaccines “It will be oriented to serve the migrant population”.
Likewise, the president stressed that today the world is seeing how the presence of the Delta variant spreads in the world and the best way to face it “It is with mass vaccination, and clearly these vaccines will be decisive in the protection of Colombians.”
For his part, Philip Goldberg, United States Ambassador to Colombia, was pleased to join in on this significant occasion, and congratulated Colombia “For having reached more than 11 million fully vaccinated Colombians; this progress is extraordinary “Goldberg said.
The same way, stated that stopping COVID-19 is the number one priority of President Joe Biden’s administration.
Finally, President Duque thanked again for the donation and invited Colombians to “massively vaccinate us”.
Germán Escobar, Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, stressed that these vaccines are the first to arrive from this pharmaceutical company and will reinforce the National Vaccination Plan in the massive stage in which the country is. “These vaccines will be completed with the arrival of the first of the bilateral agreement with this pharmaceutical company, which are expected in the next few days and during the month of August with a significant number”, he indicated.
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