Ardern thanks Sánchez for sending 250,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine

Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, thanked this Thursday for the management of the government from Spain for the shipment to your country of more than 250,000 additional doses of the vaccine Pfizer with which it seeks to reinforce its immunization campaign against coronavirus.

“We are deeply grateful to Spain for its cooperation and agreement for the sale of these doses to New Zealand. This reaffirms the strong ties between our countries and the spirit of world values ​​shared by New Zealand and Spain,” Ardern said in a release.

The Labor Prime Minister also noted that the acquisition of additional vaccines from Madrid “are the result of an excellent collaboration between officials from New Zealand, Spain, the European Comission and Pfizer “, thanking “all those involved, especially Spanish President Pedro Sánchez.”

This shipment, which will arrive in the city of Auckland, adds to the 1.8 million doses of the American Pharmacist that the oceanic country will receive during September, according to the statement from Ardern, who announced that next week it will announce an agreement with another country for the acquisition of more vaccines.

Lockdown

Vaccines arrive while authorities confine more than 1.6 million inhabitants of Auckland, the country’s most populous city, for a regrowth linked to delta variant and where this Thursday 18 new infections were reported, with which New Zealand accumulates 625 active cases, most of them local infections.

The New Zealand Executive, which has administered the full agenda To 33% of the country’s target population of about 5 million inhabitants, it intends to finish its immunization campaign before the end of the year to reopen its borders in the first quarter of 2021, which closed in March 2020.

New Zealand, which was applauded worldwide for its management of the covid, accumulates 3,847 infections, between confirmed and probable, since the beginning of the pandemic, including 27 deceased.

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