This is the amount the national government will pay to bring the 192 thousand Sinovac vaccines from Beijing.

President Iván Duque reported on the morning of Tuesday, February 16, that 192,000 doses of the Sinovac covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the country this weekend, which a Chinese pharmaceutical company has developed. “We continue to make progress on the national immunization plan. This weekend, 192,000 doses of Sinovac will arrive in the country. We will continue to gradually receive the doses needed to vaccinate 35 million Colombians in 2021 ″said the head of state.

Hours after the announcement, Blu Radio released a resolution of Ministry of Finance in which the disbursement of 525 million pesos for air and land transport is approved batches of these first doses that this pharmaceutical company will deliver to Colombia.

In the document published by this station, we read:

“That the Management Committee of the Emergency Mitigation Fund -FOME, in its virtual session of February 11, 2021- approved the funding from the resources of the FOME of the category of resources available for health care, the request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs worth FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE MILLION PESOS MCTE ($ 525,000,000) for the subcontracting of the international transport of 192,000 doses of vaccines from the SINOVAC laboratory of the People’s Republic of China to the Colombia, the nationalization and land transport service of the goods, the above according to the certification of the technical secretary of February 12, 2021 ″.

The efficacy of the Sinovac vaccine is 90% in normal people and 50.3% in healthcare professionals: MinSalud

Faced with the problem of this vaccine, the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, responded to several unknowns about this prototype in Noticias Caracol and clarified how effective the Asian organic is which will soon arrive in the country.

One of the doubts the newsletter raised in Ruiz was about the vaccine’s effectiveness Sinovac, which is 50.3%, compared to Pfizer, which is 94% effective. Ruiz referred to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on vaccines and assured that “the efficacy recommended by the WHO is at least 50 percent. Sinovac is above that percentage, 50.3 ″, said the Ministry of Health, which added that the Chinese biological gives greater immunity to those not directly confronted with Covid-19, as do health professionals.

“I want to clarify that this efficacy of 50.3 occurs in a study where it was evaluated in an environment where it was only applied to health figures working with COVID, where the risk of contagion is high. higher than in population studies that have been performed with Sinovac Vaccine. The efficiency – in normal people – is around 90% and it is also very important “Minister Ruiz explained in the news.

On a related note, the head of the health portfolio told Noticias Caracol that all the vaccines that the Colombian government has successfully mitigated against the coronavirus “are almost 100% effective in preventing serious illness from COVID, it is that is, the disease that leads to death. . This is very important for the prevention of mortality in the elderly, which is our main objective, ”said the Minister, who also pointed out that this Asian biological product is used in Chile and Uruguay.

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