El Salvador will receive this Monday 1.5 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine against covid-19, donated by the United States through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The White House announced this Friday to Efe exclusively the news about the shipment to El Salvador, which is part of the 80 million doses of vaccines that the president, Joe Biden, has promised to share with other countries, most of them through by Covax.
The doses of the American pharmaceutical company Moderna will leave the North American country this Sunday and arrive in El Salvador early on Monday, a White House source explained to Efe.
“Scientific teams and legal and regulatory authorities from both countries have worked together to ensure the rapid delivery of safe and effective vaccine batches to El Salvador,” added the source.
El Salvador, with a population of 6.4 million people, is the seventh Latin American country to receive a vaccine donation within the 80 million doses that Biden has promised to share with other countries, of which more than 20 million will go to stop nations of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Before El Salvador, the United States has donated 1.5 million vaccines to Honduras, 1.3 million to Mexico, 3 million doses to Brazil, 2 million to Peru, 2.5 million to Colombia, and 1 million to Ecuador. a country that will receive another million more vaccines in three weeks.
Both the donations to El Salvador and Honduras – also of Moderna vaccines – were sent through the Covax platform, while the rest are direct deliveries to the countries.
The source consulted by Efe explained that the White House chooses the delivery method that is faster to deliver the vaccines to each nation.
“We do not share these doses to extract favors or concessions. Our vaccines do not arrive with conditions. We do this with the sole objective of saving lives, ”the official stressed.
In addition to the countries that have already received batches, the White House has promised to donate vaccines to Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and other nations of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
In addition to the 80 million doses promised by the White House and another 60 million AstraZeneca vaccines delivered in May, Biden revealed in June that the US had purchased an additional 500 million doses of Pfizer / BioNTech, which it will deliver to near than 100 countries in the next two years.
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