President Iván Duque announces that two million vaccines from Sinovac will arrive in the country on March 7

Colombian President Iván Duque announced this Thursday, February 25, during a press conference, that new doses of vaccines against the coronavirus will arrive from China on March 7.

“This morning I had the opportunity to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping and we are waiting two million Sinovac vaccines expected to be in the country by March 7. This will of course mean a very significant acceleration with the other batches and as we work in coordination, I know that this will bring great effects and benefits for our country ”, expressed the president.

The announcement was made during the development of the Capital Cities Law Disclosure Act, an event that brought together the country’s mayors, including Claudia López and Daniel Quintero.

With the information released by President Iván Duque on Thursday, the national vaccination plan is continuing its course in the country.

February 15 The first 50,000 doses of covid-19 vaccine have arrived in Colombia. The biological products produced in the laboratory of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Belgium have been applied since February 17 to those who are in the first line of care as part of the national vaccination plan.

Likewise, on February 20, Colombia received 192 thousand doses of covid-19 vaccine from Sinovac laboratory.

Likewise, this Wednesday, February 24, he arrived in Colombian territory. a second batch of 50,310 new doses of the vaccine against covid-19, from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

Vice Minister of Health Luis Alexander Moscoso, responsible for receiving vaccines, said: “With this new shipment, we are completing the vaccination of health personnel in capitals and metropolitan areas and areas that have freezing. 100,000 doses which will be supplemented by 100,000 additional doses next week with which we will vaccinate the personnel of these cities in their first doses ”.

With the arrival of the second batch of Pfizer vaccines, the country continues to advance its national vaccine plan against covid-19. This was emphasized by the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz Gómez, adding that In order to allocate the biological products corresponding to this new reception, a new administrative act has just been issued.

“This is Resolution 205 of 2021, by which 50,650 vaccines are assigned to be distributed in the various departments and districts, including 340 vaccines that were in stock at the collection center of the Ministry of Health and which corresponded to the ‘previous Pfizer shipment’, Ruiz Gómez indicated.

In this way, a new distribution has started for the district of Bogotá and the department of Cundinamarca, and from this February 25, these vaccines will be distributed to the rest of the country.

In this regard, the Minister said: “This is in addition to the already completed distribution of 192,000 Sinovac vaccines, with which we cover all front-line human health talents, such as those aged 80 and over.”

The Ministry of Health indicated that, thanks to the national vaccination plan underway in the country, 50,524 citizens have been immunized against covid-19. (with cut-off on Wednesday February 24).

El pasado miércoles, el ministro también se refirió a las denuncias que se han presentado por parte de la Asociación Colombiana de Cuidado Crítico frente al posible uso inadecuado de vacunas en personal que no es de primera línea en atención al covid-19 en las diferentes IPS from the country.

Ruiz Gómez stressed that vaccines should be used by frontline staff registered at Mi Vacuna, as well as “It is the responsibility of each IPS, to adequately report the human talent in health corresponding to stage I, as well as to ensure that at the time of the request, the operation is carried out to the person concerned. “

Faced with the scenario denounced, Minister Ruiz expressly asked the National Superintendence of Health to start acting at the territorial level in order to be able to highlight the cases made explicit, as well as to conduct the respective investigations.