COVID-19 | More than 662,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrive in Peru NNDC | PERU

A new batch of 662,220 Pfizer vaccines arrived tonight at the Jorge Chávez del Callao International Airport to continue with the inoculation days against COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, indicated that this is the first batch of the different ones that will arrive this month in the country.

“Two million Sinopharm will arrive tomorrow, which will allow us to distribute and apply the vaccine throughout the country in a much more massive way”the minister told TV Peru.

Added that it isto is part from “increase strategy “ the arrival of vaccines (PfIzer, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca). “We aspire to reach 14 million Peruvians vaccinated with both doses by the end of the month; that is, 50% of the population covered and protected against the eventuality of a third wave ”, he said..

Cevallos also mentioned that it is expected to be able to vaccinate the entire population over 18 years of age by the end of the year. This according to the vaccination schedule that has been running.

“We are marching towards that, to continue protecting the Peruvian population; first with the vaccine, which is the most important thing, but also support biosecurity measures such as masks”, He concluded.