The Foreign Ministry announces that another batch with second doses of the Sputnik V vaccine will be collected on Wednesday the 15th from Moscow and will arrive in Bolivia on Friday the 17th. The news was confirmed by Benjamin Blanco Ferri, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, adding that they received the export permit for the doses to be delivered until Wednesday in Russia.
“We are waiting for it to be a passenger plane, where we have a regular frequency to Madrid, to save some costs; The batch of the second doses of this vaccine would already be guaranteed. With this batch we are able to cover the second doses until mid-October“Said Blanco. For their part, the Foreign Ministry estimates that they will receive another additional batch of 500,000 Sputnik V in the middle of the following month.
In Santa Cruz, 65,323 of the second component were needed to complete their immunization schedule, which were due to be received in the last week of August, but only 9,000 arrived.
According to the Santa Cruz headquarters, carry a deficit of 358,000 second doses of the Russian vaccineThey received 442,000 first doses and 84,000 of the second component arrived.
More vaccines through the Covax mechanism
Regarding the pending batches of vaccines from Covax, Blanco stipulated that they are likely to be received until the end of the year, however, he clarified that the arrival of new batches of bilateral donations through this mechanism has been confirmed.
“We have 188,000 doses of Pfizer pending that would have to arrive from the United States, in addition to 585,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Spain and about 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca, from France. However, we estimate that more will arrive, ”Blanco said.
Sinopharm vaccines, the most applied in Bolivia
Regarding the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, Blanco said that the contract has been fulfilled and both the purchased and the donated doses have been received in full. “The last contract was for 6 million doses. These 3.3 million vaccines that have arrived a few days ago, complete the total. That is why we received that amount in a single flight and we have saved six flights ”, remarked Blanco.
Bolivia has received 9 million doses of Sinopharm, that is, the 63% of the vaccinable population the country is going to be immunized with this Chinese-made vaccine.
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The Foreign Ministry announces that another batch with second doses of the Sputnik V vaccine will be collected on Wednesday the 15th from Moscow and will arrive in Bolivia on Friday the 17th. The news was confirmed by Benjamin Blanco Ferri, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, adding that they received the export permit for the doses to be delivered until Wednesday in Russia.
“We are waiting for it to be a passenger plane, where we have a regular frequency to Madrid, to save some costs; The batch of the second doses of this vaccine would already be guaranteed. With this batch we are able to cover the second doses until mid-October“Said Blanco. For their part, the Foreign Ministry estimates that they will receive another additional batch of 500,000 Sputnik V in the middle of the following month.
In Santa Cruz, 65,323 of the second component were needed to complete their immunization schedule, which were due to be received in the last week of August, but only 9,000 arrived.
According to the Santa Cruz headquarters, carry a deficit of 358,000 second doses of the Russian vaccineThey received 442,000 first doses and 84,000 of the second component arrived.
More vaccines through the Covax mechanism
Regarding the pending batches of vaccines from Covax, Blanco stipulated that they are likely to be received until the end of the year, however, he clarified that the arrival of new batches of bilateral donations through this mechanism has been confirmed.
“We have 188,000 doses of Pfizer pending that would have to arrive from the United States, in addition to 585,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Spain and about 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca, from France. However, we estimate that more will arrive, ”Blanco said.
Sinopharm vaccines, the most applied in Bolivia
Regarding the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, Blanco said that the contract has been fulfilled and both the purchased and the donated doses have been received in full. “The last contract was for 6 million doses. These 3.3 million vaccines that have arrived a few days ago, complete the total. That is why we received that amount in a single flight and we have saved six flights ”, remarked Blanco.
Bolivia has received 9 million doses of Sinopharm, that is, the 63% of the vaccinable population the country is going to be immunized with this Chinese-made vaccine.
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