Acevedo says that in August almost 2 million vaccines against covid-19 could be received – Nationals

“I think it is going to double (in August) … (we are going to have) more than we have in June,” Acevedo said, without wanting to go into much detail about what vaccines they would be. Our country has been waiting for a long time for vaccine providers to deliver the doses already paid for. So far, the record for doses received is a donation from the United States, consisting of one million doses from Pfizer.

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He even initially limited himself to saying that “jaguerekovéta (we will have more)” vaccines, but then he indicated an estimate. “I can risk saying yes (we are going to beat July), I am doing a quick calculation and we are reaching 1,950,000,” he said at 1080 AM.

Paraguay has already fully paid for vaccines acquired through the Covax mechanism, dependent on the Pan American Health Organization, as well as the Indian vaccines Sinopharm Hayat Vax, and Sputnik V, acquired from the Russian Investment Fund. In addition, another 35,100 doses of Pfizer arrive tonight from the United States, as well as more weekly shipments of the same vaccine are expected.