A new batch of 400,000 Russian vaccines Sputnik V came to Bolivia this Saturday to the airport of the central department of Cochabamba, the third shipment of doses to arrive this week and that is destined to “accelerate” mass vaccination amid the rise of the third wave of the pandemic in the country.
A plane from the state Boliviana de Aviación (Boa) transported the vaccines from Russia to the Jorge Wilstermann airport in the city of Cochabamba, where the president was waiting for them. Luis Arce together with the Russian ambassador to the country, Mikhail Ledenev, among other authorities.
The Bolivian president thanked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, through the ambassador for the arrival of this batch of doses that is given thanks to the “diplomacy of the peoples.” He also indicated that “the vaccination process in the country should be expedited” so that the greatest number of people are immunized in the middle of the third wave of the COVID-19.
For his part, Ambassador Ledenev emphasized that the time that must elapse between the first and second doses of Russian vaccines is three months and that the first immunization already provides “high security” while the second “reinforces” this process. .
This clarification was given due to the concern of the population because only the first doses of this vaccine are arriving and not the second ones, which have a different composition. This batch is the third shipment this week to complete the 1.5 million vaccines announced by the Bolivian Government, between Russian and Chinese doses. Sinopharm.
FROM 8,000 TO 41,000 DAILY DOSES
The Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, said in a press conference that with the massive vaccination points this process is accelerating, which previously reached 8,000 daily doses and now amounted to 41,000 vaccinations per day.
Bolivia is already vaccinating people over 50 and journalists, again generating lines in health centers amid the rise in cases of this third wave of the COVID-19 that on Friday registered more than 2 000 daily infections.
The immunization process in the country occurs with vaccines Sinopharm Y Sputnik V, in addition to having received through the mechanism Covax of the United Nations the Pfizer y Oxford-AstraZeneca.
The country reports 810,391 vaccinations with the first dose, while 283,574 received the second in a population of 11 million inhabitants.
EFE
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