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San Salvador, Apr 14 (EFE).- Nicaragua received a new batch of 1,042,800 vaccines against covid-19 donated by Hungary, which will serve to strengthen the vaccination process in the Central American country, the Ministry of Health reported this Friday ( Minsa) Nicaraguan.
This batch of 1,042,800 vaccines of the Pfizer/Comirnaty formula was received Thursday night at the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, in Managua, by the Hungarian ambassador to Nicaragua, Zoltán Németh, and the Nicaraguan Health Minister, Martha Kings.
The minister explained to the journalists that this is the second donation from the European nation to Nicaragua, within the framework of the national vaccination campaign aimed at preventing 17 diseases, as well as the voluntary inoculation against covid-19 to people aged 2 years onwards.
“Currently we have 97% of the population with at least one dose and 95% of the population with the complete scheme,” said the Minister of Health.
“We are developing our vaccination that corresponds to the year 2023 and this important donation comes to strengthen this campaign and the protection of the Nicaraguan population against this disease,” he added.
For his part, the Hungarian ambassador told journalists that “it is a pleasure to help protect the health of the Nicaraguan people, to help in the vaccination campaign, (and) also (to) help prevent the outbreak of the pandemic”.
“At the end of January we delivered a batch and now a batch of more than a million Pfizer vaccines has just arrived,” said the diplomat.
After the shipment in January of this year of more than 300,000 doses of BioNtech/Pfizer vaccines, this is the second donation of anticovid vaccines to Nicaragua made by Budapest, and the largest donation of drugs that Hungary has made to any country to date. indicates the official information.
Nicaragua accumulates 245 deaths and 20,665 cases of covid-19 since the coronavirus was detected in the country 3 years ago, according to Minsa data. EFE
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