Coronavirus vaccines: Nicolás Maduro will prioritize Chavista activists for Sputnik V

CARACAS.- “Next week, 100,000 first Sputnik-V vaccines in Venezuela ”, the Bolivarian president announced last Tuesday Nicolas maduro during a TV show. In the same message, he indicated that they would initiate a vaccination plan with the priority sectors of the country, and sparked controversy over the privileged place that Chavism activists will occupy.

“We are going to vaccinate all the medical staff, the health workers, the most vulnerable sectors and then we will vaccinate the educators,” said the president. And added that After the vaccination of these sectors, he pledged that the first beneficiaries of the vaccine would be the activists of the We are Venezuela movement.

This Tuesday The deadline for Venezuela to pay for the Covid-19 vaccines it reserved through the Global Access Fund (Covax) has expired of the Pan American Health Organization, but the agency asked to give her more time to raise funds. “We are in negotiations with Covax because Venezuela should have already made the payment, but Due to the difficult situation in Venezuela, it is taking longer ”, Jarbas Barbosa, deputy director of PAHO, said. “And we ask Covax to have a flexible schedule to receive payments when they are available, and to keep Venezuela as a self-funded country in the mechanism,” he said.

They must be paid between 1,425,000 and 2,409,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, which would arrive in the country at the end of February.

The medical union and experts expressed concern about the lack of political agreement between Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president, and Nicolás Maduro for payment with Venezuelan resources abroad.

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