At a time when attendance at vaccination centers against COVID-19 is increasingly low and the country is beginning to record some economic losses due to batches of the biological that have expired, 40% of the doses that they were hired.
According to the institutional memory of Public health, Dominican Republic contracted 35,767,900 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from different pharmaceutical companies and also received a donation of 160,000; while he planned to receive another 2,169,600 through the United Nations Covax mechanism.
As of October 2021, 22,794,080 doses of the vaccines had arrived in the country, of which 15,252,198 have been placed, according to the latest data from the VacunatéRD program, that is, the authorities should have more than seven million in stock.
By the same date, the authorities had paid RD$21 billion for part of the contracted vaccines.
According to data from Public healthfrom the pharmacist Sinovac 15,768,000 doses were contracted, all of which have already been sent to the country. while of Pfizer 9,999,990 were hired and 5,583,280 have arrived, for 55%.
From the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, 10,000,000 were hired and only 879,600 have arrived, which represents 0.08%. It was a batch of 354,240 doses of this vaccine that recently expired.
Of the 2,169,600 doses of the Gavi Covax program, only 463,200 have arrived, which represents 21% of the expected vaccines.
On Wednesday, the Minister of Public healthDaniel Rivera, presented some vaccination goal graphs, with which he aspires to inoculate the population that already has the first with a second and third dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
According to the data presented, the authorities expect to apply more than four million doses by the end of May.
On the other hand, the report states that as of October 2021, RD$1.9 billion had been invested to purchase reagents, rapid tests, materials, and services for the operation of vaccination days.
While, through international cooperation, 24 donation agreements for health products, equipment and technology were managed within the framework of the national response to COVID-19 and 10 agreements for non-reimbursable cooperation projects to support the achievement of coverage goals. , quality and efficiency established in the strategic plan.
Funds equivalent to RD$720 million were managed, of which RD$127.9 million have been regularized to attend the vaccination days.
