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At 07:34 hours this Thursday, an American Airlines plane from Belgium landed at Pudahuel airport with the second shipment of vaccines against covid-19.
Is about 11,700 new doses of the immunization elaborated by the Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories that will be taken to the regions of Valparaíso, El Maule, Los Ríos and Los Lagos.
“Departures from Puurs, Belgium, on December 30 in the early morning of Chile, the vaccines had a technical scale in the United States before embarking on the final trip to Santiago ”, indicated from the Government.
NOW – ✈ The second shipment of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines against # COVID-19. There are more than 11 thousand doses that follow the vaccination process. #YoMeVacuno pic.twitter.com/MAYI7Hlq3F
– Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) December 31, 2020
Like the first shipment, this shipment must go through a control process and then be dispatched in a Carabineros helicopter to a collection logistics center, where the reception and review of the cargo will be carried out.
These types of vaccines need keep at -70 ° C and the boxes in which they come have a technology with which you can know if they are open or closed, what temperature they are and where they are.
The BNT162b2 vaccine requires two doses, 21 days apart. Its administration targets those over 16 years of age.
In the first installment, La Moneda inoculated all health workers who work in critical patient units in the regions of Magallanes, La Araucanía and Bío Bío.
However, the idea is protect 15 million people that make up the target population in the first half of 2021.
With the agreement with Pfizer / BioNTech, Chile has already secured 10 million immunizations, with shipments of origin from the United States or Belgium.
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