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This Monday, the Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks of the Ministry of Health, Alberto Dougnac, pointed out that there was no certainty about a new arrival of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines due to a restructuring of the development plant in Belgium. Despite this, this Tuesday it was revealed that 44 thousand doses were secured after a call from the President to the pharmaceutical company, which will arrive this Wednesday.
The foregoing was announced by the Government Spokesperson, Jaime Bellolio, who announced that this Wednesday the approval of the Sinovac vaccine will be discussed by a committee of ISP experts. It was in this context that he took the opportunity to point out that despite the worldwide suspension of Pfizer vaccine deliveries, this Wednesday a new shipment will arrive in Chile.
“As the public has been informed, Pfizer gave a communication to the whole world saying that it was going to suspend shipments for four weeks, however, President Piñera contacted high authorities of Pfizer with which he assured, that in fact, tomorrow a new shipment of vaccines will arrive, in this case 44 thousand Pfizer vaccines “, Held.
Along these lines, he pointed out that as a Government they hope “that with the approval of the ISP (Sinovac vaccine) we can then continue with our vaccination plan for the month of February, March and April and thus the first quarter to be able to complete those 5 million Chileans and Chilean women that we need to be able to vaccinate during this first quarter, which is our critical group ”.
“That will follow the order of priority that vaccination has had until now, which as you know, were those people who worked first in hospitals, particularly in critical patient units, then the rest of the health personnel who attend the same hospitals, and then continue with older adults “he declared.
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