The pharmaceutical company Pfizer delivered to Costa Rica this Thursday night the last batch of vaccines against COVID-19 corresponding to the 2021 contract.
Is about 225,810 doses that they arrived at the Juan Santamaría International Airport aboard a DHL flight; and that will now be submitted to the review of the temperature reports and documentary approval by the drug quality control laboratory, after which they are available for use in the vaccination campaign.
With this delivery the country exceeds 8,291,745 doses received of the 10,738,595 that it is projected to receive. With today’s delivery, the country has already received 77.21% of the expected doses, between contracts and donations.
Pfizer and AstraZeneca have already delivered 100% of the contracted doses to Costa Rica. The WHO COVAX mechanism is the only one with a bilateral contract that is in breach, since to date it has barely delivered 12.72% of the 2 million doses that must be given to the country. There are also 200,000 doses of Pfizer donated by France, and 500,000 doses of Pfizer that will be transferred by Spain to Costa Rica.
According to the December 21 cutoff issued by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), 234,269 doses of vaccine were applied in the last week. Of the total doses placed, 3,934,813 are first doses, 3,444,299 are second doses and 200,934 are third doses.
INS will donate 1 billion to purchase vaccines in 2022
The National Insurance Institute (INS) announced this Thursday that it would donate 1 billion colones to the National Emergency Commission (CNE), in order to finance the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19 for the year 2022.
Juan Gabriel Pérez Salguera, executive president of the state company, signed tonight the document that will give way to the donation, together with the president of the CNE, Alexánder Solís Delgado; and President Carlos Alvarado Quesada as an honorary witness.
Pérez Salguera said he was proud of the transfer of resources to the CNE and thanked the INS board of directors “for that mystique and solidarity in having approved the transfer under the legal framework, and without affecting the finances of the institution.”
To date, Costa Rica estimates that it will buy a total of 3.5 million doses of the vaccine from Pfizer in 2022, which will be used to immunize 1.5 million children between 5 and 12 years of age and 2 million to give booster doses to the same number of people.
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