US to donate another million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Paraguay

United States to Donate Another Million Doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine to Paraguay to Continue its Vaccination Program that Gave Up Last Monththe North American country’s embassy in Asunción said on Sunday.

The charge d’affaires of the American delegation in the Paraguayan capital, Joseph Salazar, made the announcement on his Twitter account. The United States has already donated a million doses of the same vaccine, which arrived in the country in early July, and the next batch will arrive in the next few days, according to Salazar.

Paraguay has difficulty accessing the purchase of vaccines and a large part of those it receives comes from donations from other countries. The vaccination program got off to a very slow start in the first half of the year, with the country seeing spikes in infections and deaths from COVID-19.

Last week, the government has lowered the range of vaccinations to people over 20 and adolescents with underlying diseases between 12 and 17. Infections and deaths have fallen in recent weeks and total 448,918 and 14,593 respectively since the start of the pandemic until Saturday, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

United States pledged to ship 80 million vaccines to countries most in need by end of June and said he plans to donate 500 million doses of Pfizer to the poorest nations over the next few years.

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo thanked the new donation in a message on his Twitter account.

On the other hand, This Sunday 3.5 million Moderna vaccines against covid-19 arrived in Colombia, which were also donated by the United States.

“It is an act of generosity which It responds to the good relations we have with this country, which also responds to the historic alliance we have with the United States as we move forward together in this process.“, declared the President of Colombia, Iván Duque.

This Thursday, The US government also donated Moderna’s 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccines to Honduras, which are added to the 1.5 million doses received on June 27 using the same mechanism.

“We receive a large batch of 1.5 million modern vaccines, ”Honduran Minister of Health Alba Consuelo Flores said at the drug delivery ceremony in San Pedro Sula, in the north of the country.. He stressed that the vaccines donated by the United States will be distributed in the departments surrounding Francisco Morazán, the central region of the country, to make “containment” in the central district.

(With information from Reuters)

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