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The US company Pfizer will deliver to Chile a total of 10.1 million doses of the vaccine to combat Covid-19, although in the first instance the laboratory will ship 1.6 doses in the first quarter of 2021.
According to the newspaper The Mercury, after this first delivery they will be made monthly the shipment of 550 thousand vaccines, which will cause Chile to take about 15 months to receive the full dose.
Regarding this process, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, indicated that “We are going to vaccinate health professionals first, especially to the first line to those who work in emergency, ICU “.
“As the Pfizer vaccine has certain restrictions for transport, especially by plane, we are thinking of vaccinating in the MRI and in two other regions of Chile, which are not yet fully defined “, indicated the Secretary of State to the morning.
Jeannette Dabanch, infectologist at the University of Chile and coordinator of the Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Immunizations (Cavei) of Minsal, indicated to The Mercury that “throughout the world it has been assumed that the vaccination period to meet the needs of each country will most likely take many months.”
British regulators They have already approved the vaccine against Covid-19 developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for use in the UK.
