Venezuela will receive “this week” the first vaccines from Covax, according to Maduro

Caracas, Sep 5 (EFE) .- Venezuela will receive “this week” the first vaccines against covid-19 from the Covax mechanism, which is administered by the World Health Organization (WHO), President Nicolás Maduro assured this Sunday.
“This week the first vaccines of the Covax mechanism arrive and we hope that the Covax mechanism accelerates so that, in October, it delivers all the vaccines to vaccinate, according to the estimate, 6 million Venezuelans,” Maduro said in an interview that He was made by his Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas.
In said interview, broadcast by the Venezuelan state television channel (VTV), he also denounced having discovered that “they were slowing down” and “sabotaging” the delivery of vaccines from that mechanism.
“(I) was aware of some international officials, bad people in those organizations, who (…) lent themselves to sabotage Venezuela,” said the president.
The executive vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, denounced this Friday that the country had not yet received “not a dose” of the vaccines from the Covax mechanism.
“Despite the fact that Venezuela canceled every penny (…) it has not received a single dose as of today; it is what are called second-level sanctions,” he said in the virtual Latin America teacher training course in the crossroads.
A day earlier, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) stated that, within the Covax mechanism and for an equitable distribution of vaccines, purchase orders have been generated through the revolving fund of 693,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine, which They should be arriving in Venezuela at the end of September.
In addition, additional doses of Sinopharm are expected to arrive in Venezuela in the “last quarter of the year.”
Venezuela has administered, up to now, according to the PAHO Health Emergencies and Risk Assessment Chief Information Officer, Enrique Pérez-Gutiérrez, 9,342,817 doses, of which 6,653,094 were administered to 3,326,547 people who received the regimen. complete, and the rest, to injected citizens, only with the first unit of two necessary.
On August 1, Maduro announced that vaccines from the Covax mechanism would begin to arrive in the country “in the next few days.”
Without referring to that date previously offered, the president considered that Venezuela is at the vaccination rate that it can due to “international financial persecution and sabotage of the delegated times of some vaccines.”
THEY HAVE DRAWN AN “ALTERNATIVE PLAN”
Maduro stressed that his government drew up “an alternative plan”, of which he did not provide details, to vaccinate 70% of the population in October.
“Today we have 30% of the population vaccinated and we aspire, after September, to reach 50% and in October to reach the goal of 70%,” he added.
Regarding the Sputnik V vaccine, which, as recognized by the Minister of Culture in his question, was inoculated to many citizens who now await the arrival of new doses to receive the second, the head of state explained that the manufacturers in Russia “have solved some problems they had with the production companies. “
“Already this week, on Monday, part of that second dose enters Venezuela and, by the end of September, the operation of the second doses must be completed,” he concluded.

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