Ecuador receives a million vaccines
Ecuador received this Thursday the first batch with a million Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19, of a total of two million doses donated by the United States Government, to support the immunization process of the population carried out by the administration of President Guillermo Lasso.
This donation, which will feed the ongoing vaccination campaign, “It will allow citizens to stay away from death, away from disease”, remarked the Ecuadorian vice president, Alfredo Borrero, in a small ceremony to receive the doses. He also stated that the remittance brings the country closer to the goal set by the Government of immunize 9 million people, 60% of the population, by the end of July.
In addition, the vice president indicated that the constant arrival of vaccines to the country will allow second week of July exists at possibility of extending immunization to the younger population. They are scheduled to arrive in the country this Saturday two million doses of Sinovac and the following week 379,080 from Pfizer, with which in the last week Ecuador would receive almost 3.4 million vaccines, according to Efe.
Until June 29, Ecuador had applied 4,152,557 vaccines, of which 2,793,332 correspond to first doses Y 1,359,225 to the second injections.
On the other hand, Ecuador began this Thursday the vaccination of a group of indigenous Waorani, who live in the Amazon jungle and are related to two clans that are kept in voluntary isolation. “We managed to vaccinate the Waorani population that is in the Intangible Zone of the Amazon, in the heart of the Yasuní (national park)“, said the secretary (minister) of Human Rights, Bernarda Ordóñez, on Twitter.
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