With 80% of the population vaccinated against COVID-19 with two doses, the Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, estimates donate vaccines for the most vulnerable citizens of places where there is no access to drugs.
Cevallos announced to La República that this measure would be taken because there are vaccines that will arrive outside the schedule established by his portfolio.
“Many (vaccines) arrived when they were needed, others did not arrive and, well, since the contract is signed, they can arrive in January, and in January these vaccines are not going to be as useful as we want them to be because they are outside the vaccination schedule that we establish. What we want is to try to donate them. What we want is for the laboratory to allow us to make these donations so that they do not expire, “he said.
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Likewise, the minister indicated that one of the beneficiaries could be in the African continent, where there is less access to vaccination.
“There are countries on other continents that don’t have them. (…) Africa, above all. (…) In fact, we have already sent a series of letters saying for which countries we have vaccines to deliver in case they accept, but for that we have to have the approval of the company “, he added.
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However, Cevallos stressed that the provision to enable donations should be discussed with the companies that delivered the vaccines.
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