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Vice President Guillermo Castillo referred to the disapproval of the State of Calamity and pointed out that the Government’s commitment must be to provide vaccines, “without vaccines it will not be easy to solve the problem of containment and mitigation of this pandemic.”
The vice president added that although the State of Calamity was not approved, there must be a commitment to apply the vaccine.
“It was foreseeable that Congress would not ratify the State of Calamity; however, the commitment that the Government must continue to assume is to provide vaccines, beyond States of Prevention we need vaccination states, ”Castillo said.
Regarding the disapproval of the State of Calamity, Vice President Guillermo Castillo said that the Government’s commitment should be to provide vaccines.
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The official added: “It is necessary that the vaccines that have already been paid for continue to come, the ones that have come – in donations – are appreciated, but what we need are two things, one is mass vaccination, now also for people over 18 years of age and maintaining biosafety measures ”.
CALLED TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF
In statements to the media, Castillo called on the population to maintain biosafety protocols, “we want to be in social life and in economic life, which is what generated an opposition with the Curfew, so let’s do it. the effort to take care of ourselves and the government to provide the vaccines ”.
PROPOSED LAW
The vice president, Guillermo Castillo also referred to the proposal of a law for the purchase of supplies to contain the coronavirus pandemic, he pointed out, “as long as you do not have it, you have to make purchases as established by the Procurement Law following the procedures respective, the government still has to comply with the commitments in health and sanitation ”.
PURCHASED VACCINES
To date, 1,460,000 Sputnik vaccines have been received, corresponding to a contract signed with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), for which a payment of Q614.5 million has already been made, it is still pending that more than 80 percent of the acquisition is delivered. However, the delivery schedule for this drug has not yet been made public.
1,258,320 doses have also arrived in the country through the Global Access Fund for Covid-19 Vaccines (Covax).
Recently, the Minister of Health, Amelia Flores, announced that a contract was closed with AstraZeneca for the purchase of 4 million doses, an acquisition shared between the Health portfolio and Social Security.
Deliveries would begin next October; however, it was not disclosed in how long it is planned to complete the shipments or the total amount of the contract.
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