The former Minister of Health, Abel salinasHe noted that “definitely Peru could not produce vaccines against COVID-19”, compared to the request of the United States and other European countries to release patents for vaccines.
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“Definitely not (we could produce vaccines against COVID-19), we at the National Institute of Health have had some initiatives, we have produced vaccines on a very small scale and for a very specific issue, it requires a series of standards that are not necessarily required. we are going to have it overnight, “he said.
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“This is not like saying, we put a plant to make candies or chocolates it is much more complex and therefore, there are countries in Latin America such as Mexico, Argentina, Brazil that do produce vaccines and in any case the rest of the countries have what they have. What to do is participate in the whole process in some way, which is sometimes the end, sometimes the labeling can be done by a country with less technology like ours or the final packaging, the final mixture, “he added.
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Abel Salinas also described as “insufficient” the measures dictated by the Government to contain the advance of the pandemic.
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