Chile has received 2 million Chinese vaccines and ‘mass vaccination’ begins

Chilean President Sebastian piñera conducted this Thursday January 28 the reception of nearly 2 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine “CoronaVac “, from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. This is the first of two similar expeditions to be completed on Sunday.

“A plane with nearly 2 million Sinovac vaccines lands in Chile!”, reported the Chilean government via its official Twitter account, attaching video of a live broadcast with the arrival of the cargo at Santiago airport, whose reception ceremony was led by Piñera and his ministers of Health, Enrique Paris and External Relations, Andrés Allamand.

With this lot close to 1,920,000 doses, Piñera assured that next week, probably Wednesday February 3, the mass vaccination process begins in Chile in the country. “Next week we will be able to launch in all regions of the country the mass vaccination process“, said the president at a press conference.

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This shipment will be followed by a second that Sinovac will perform on January 31 in Chile with a similar number of doses, to begin to comply with the contract that guarantees ten million vaccines for the country.

Piñera explained that thanks to the dispatch of two million vaccines from the Sinovac laboratory, the Ministry of Health will be able to launch the national vaccination plan next week with products available in each of the 16 regions of the country, starting with the elderly.

In the risk group there is also the own Piñera, 71 years old, who by calendar will receive the vaccine same as him Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, 72 years old.

The Sinovac Coronavac Vaccine was approved last week by the Institute of Public Health of Chile, in addition to the already permit of the American laboratory Pfizer.

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The December 24, 2020, the vaccination campaign has started in Chile with the arrival of first shipment of 10,000 doses of Pfizer, which were used to inoculate the first priority group, the staff working directly in intensive care units.

Chile has vaccine purchase contracts with laboratories Sinovac, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, AstraZeneca and with the multilateral initiative Covax of World Health Organization (WHO).

The government’s national immunization plan includes inoculate five million people in the first quarter of this year and for him first semester of next year, the government hopes to have vaccinated 15 million inhabitants of over 18 million living in Chile.

To date, 56,759 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of Pfizer and 10,315 with the first and second, said the press agency Sputnik. Chile records 709,888 cases and 18,040 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

News of the arrival of vaccines in Chile came on the same day as the Argentina received third flight with new shipment of Russian Sputnik V vaccine.

EuDr