The Minister of Health, Hernan Condoriresponded to complaints about thousands of doses against the COVID-19 that would have expired or are about to expire without having been applied to the population.
At a press conference of the Council of Ministers, Condori referred that “it is false that a million doses of the vaccine have expired AstraZenecaPeru has received 1.6 million doses that expired on February 28, of that total 8,580 doses have expired.” The rest would have been applied before the indicated date, according to the minister.
He also said that “it is false that there are six million doses of vaccines Sinopharm to win; we have less than five and a half million doses whose expiration is between October 2022 and October 2023 “.
Likewise, he specified that on December 22 and 23, 2021, 2.4 million doses arrived. AstraZeneca which have an expiration date of March 31, “of which there are less than a million left at this time and they are being applied.”
More lots to expire
Meanwhile, he stated that on March 1 and 3 of this year they received another batch of three million doses AstraZeneca that expire on April 30, “of which 50% has already been used”.
“Almost the entire pandemic has received batches with close expiration dates, two months or two and a half months,” said the minister, stressing that “vaccines have expired worldwide, but not as (the media) say” .
In addition, he said that batches of vaccines continue to arrive whose deliveries were not scheduled by the current government, but by past efforts.
“It is being received and is being vaccinated, we have already taken the measures to carry out house-to-house vaccination brigade campaigns,” he said. Hernan Condori.
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