El Salvador will send second donation of 44,000 anticovid vaccines to Honduras

The head of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), Francisco Alabí, announced this Saturday that they will send 44,000 vaccines against covid-19 to six locations in Honduras, which would represent a second donation from this country.

The donation will be transferred to the Honduran municipalities of Nueva Ocotepeque, Choluteca and those of the Department of the Bay Islands (Roatán, José Santos Guardiola, Guanaja and Utila)

Alabí said during a meeting with the mayors of these towns that on Tuesday part of the vaccines will be sent by land to the municipalities of Ocotepeque and Choluteca.

The rest will be transferred on Thursday via air to the municipalities that make up the Bay Islands, said the Salvadoran Minister of Health.

The Presidency reported this Saturday in a statement that the vaccines that the Government will donate “will not affect the immunization process of Salvadorans”, since the country has “the highest availability of doses of the drug.”

El Salvador began its immunization process in mid-February and to date more than 2 million vaccinated have been applied, of which 1,169,097 correspond to first doses and 846,311 to second doses.

This is the second donation that El Salvador makes to Honduran municipalities, since the Government of El Salvador sent in mid-May a donation of 34,000 vaccines against covid-19 to immunize “vulnerable groups” in seven municipalities in Honduras.

This donation came after seven Honduran mayors asked President Nayib Bukele for help through a video posted on social media.

The Salvadoran Presidency reported at the time that the vaccines were distributed among the Honduran municipalities of Cedros, Ojojona, San José de Colinas, Arada, Manto, Santa María del Real and San Marcos de Caiquín.

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