Chile donated 20,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Ecuador

Government of Chile donated 20,000 doses of vaccine from Sinovac laboratory against covid-19 to Ecuador for the plan to get vaccinated, it was officially reported this Saturday.

“Bilateral relations are bearing great fruit! The government of Chile has delivered 20,000 SINOVAC vaccines to Ecuador for health workers. This is a sample of solidarity between countries. Thank you Sebastián Pinera for sharing the ideal of fighting for the immunity of the regionPresident Lenín Moreno wrote on Twitter.

It’s a statement, The Communication Secretariat pointed out that the donation to the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador had been approved at the Extraordinary Summit of Presidents of the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur) February 25.

This international cooperation is part of the excellent relations between the two nations, in which Chile wishes to contribute to the equitable and coordinated access of vaccines that will be intended for inoculation of Ecuadorian health workers, in accordance with the provisions of the Vaccination Plan, he said.

The Ministry of Health received the 20,000 doses of CoronaVac vaccine, from the Sinovac Life Sciences laboratory, at José Joaquín de Olmedo airport, in the coastal city of Guayaquil.

Rodolfo Farfán, Minister of Public Health, underlined the support of the Chilean government and assured that “These doses, which arrived in Ecuador today, allow us to move quickly in the vaccination process in the country.”

“It will be used, immediately, for healthcare professionals, in accordance with phase 1 of the vaccination plan, ”he said.

This state portfolio also requested – upstream – the National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and Surveillance (Arcsa) to carry out the respective analysis of the biological product which later issued the sanitary certification and the authorization for the entry of the vaccine into the national territory.

This vaccine has the approval for emergency use of Regional Reference Surveillance Centers qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO), reads the letter.

This lot will be stored in the Vaccine bank for zone 8 Health, according to the protocols of the cold chain, which is 2 to 8 degrees Celsius, with the same care and safety measures that were used with each batch of vaccines arriving in the country.

“This shipment of vaccines is in addition to the 20 million doses already contracted by the national government to inoculate between 60% and 70% of the vaccinated population in 2021″, He said in the statement.

The MSP has signed an agreement with the Sinovac Life Sciences laboratory for the supply of 2 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, to be delivered in March and April of this year, according to the schedule established by the international pharmaceutical company and which will be communicated in the coming days, ends.

Ecuador passed 291,000 cases of covid-19 on Friday and approached 16,000 deaths from the disease, according to the health ministry, which stressed that 11,225 deaths from the virus and 4,772 others are considered “probable By disease.

Chile, for its part, continues to make steady progress in its vaccination process immunity for its population before the end of June.

In the last few hours, The Department of Health reported that 3.8 million people were vaccinated with the first dose against the coronavirus, and it is expected to cross the barrier of 4 million people vaccinated for the first time in the next few hours.

With information from EFE

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