After several months of articulated work between the national government and the private sector, Telefónica Colombia began immunization against covid-19 today, in compliance with the initiative “Companies for Vaccination” led by Andi and which brings together more than thirty production unions throughout the country.
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Ana María Vesga, director of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of the Andi, highlights that this is an effort to accelerate the National Vaccination Plan (PNV) in which the businessmen signed an alliance for the purchase of 2.5 million doses of Sinovac, of which 1.5 million have reached the country.
More than 1400 companies, from different sectors, small, medium and large acquired this first batch, which from today on Bogota Through the family compensation funds and some authorized IPS that will be in charge of logistics in harmony with the provisions of the PNV and that next week will be extended to the entire country to cover 750 thousand eemployees and collaborators.
Telefónica, it is worth saying, begins this process with the Cafam contest at the La Floresta Convention Center.
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A second batch of about a million is expected. dose in mid-July. “This initiative is unprecedented worldwide and opens the door to collaborative schemes in public health,” said Vesga and recalled that 285 billion pesos have been invested in this task by private companies.
On Tuesday of next week, Bavaria and Sura continue, among the big ones, and the national distribution of vaccines begins.
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