This is how the covid vaccines will be distributed, which will arrive in Colombia in March.

Following President Iván Duque’s announcement that the On March 1, 117,000 Pfizer vaccines will arrive in Colombia, via the COVAX mechanism, and on March 7, 2 million doses from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, the Ministry of Health has also announced how these biological products will be distributed throughout the country.

“We are the first country in America to receive these vaccines from Covax and the second country in the world because we are preparing on time, because we have also decided to enter into this multilateral agreement and ensure the sustainability of the supply of vaccines, ”the president announced at the Governors’ Summit held in Puerto Gaitán, Meta.

In addition, Duque assured that “next Monday, March 1, 117,000 Pfizer vaccines will arrive in our country under the agreement with COVAX”. Along those lines, the covid-19 drugs that will arrive in Colombia will be:

March 1: 117,000 Covax-Pfizer vaccines

March 5: 100,002 Pfizer vaccines

-March 7: 2,000,000 Sinovac vaccines

Of these doses, according to the government of Bogotá, the capital of the country, would receive 33,648 doses of Pfizer, with which medical personnel who are on the front line against SARS-CoV-2 will be vaccinated. The same applies to Antioquia will arrive 12,600 and Valle del Cauca, 9,012 doses from said laboratory. On the other hand, the Ministry of Health has announced the distribution of other biological products:

Enter both, in one of this week’s Prevention and Action shows, according to what was reported by Deputy Health Minister Luis Alexander Moscoso, The vaccines that Colombia will receive by COVAX will allow the country’s health system to immunize 100% of the health workforce, con what would be accomplished with the first stage of vaccination defined in the national vaccination plan.

“We went from a projection of 82% that we had with these 100,000 doses, to 100% of the health workforce. With doses available to all frontline care and support staff, ”said Moscoso.

Following this announcement, The senior official also assured that the two million doses of Sinovac immediately arrive in Colombia, Only 1,096,790 will be distributed nationwide and the rest will be stockpiled to have a second dose ready, while more shipments of organic products will arrive in the country.

From this, According to the Ministry of Health, Bogotá would have 159512, Antioquia 147.515 and Valle del Cauca 116.942, With which, progress is expected to be made in vaccinating adults over 80 years of age against the coronavirus.

This would be the distribution:

According to statements collected by the newspaper El Tiempo, Duque used the announcement to refer to those who made comments against COVAX, noting that “For those who said that Covax is not working, that it is not real and that it is an illusion, the answers are the facts, because here we act with facts and think about the well-being of Colombians.”

It goes without saying that Colombia is expected to receive, throughout 2021, a total of 20 million doses of this mechanism. Among these, ten million will be manufactured by the American Pfizer, in alliance with the German firm BioNTech; while the The remaining ten million will correspond to the alternative developed by the British AstraZeneca, which had the support of the University of Oxford.

Ghana, an African country, has already benefited from the same system that on February 24, he received a total of 600,000 doses vaccine from this second laboratory. Such a quantity reached the capital, Accra.

Once this delivery was completed, the director of Unicef ​​for West and Central Africa, Marie Pierre-Poirier, noted that “it is a turning point. We estimate that we will deliver 1.3 billion doses in 2021 with the COVAX association, this will only cover 20% of the most vulnerable population of any country on the planet, there is still a lot to do. But we started the first phase today ”.

The confirmation of the arrival of the first Covax vaccines in Colombia was celebrated by the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic, María Paula Correa, who wrote on her Twitter account that “Colombia will be the first country in Latin America and the second in the world to receive vaccines against #COVID ー 19. On Monday March 1, we will receive 117,000 doses of vaccine from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Mass vaccination continues! “

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