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After the US laboratory Pfizer confirmed yesterday that it will reduce deliveries of vaccines against Covid-19 at the end of January or beginning of February, in order to make changes in its production processes, and thus increase its future deliveries, the Minister of Salud, Enrique Paris, made a call for calm and assured that a new shipment will arrive next week.
“With regard to the issue of vaccines, we have received the information from Pfizer, and that’s right, Pfizer is going to modify the manufacturing operation structure of one of its plants and despite that the vaccines will continue to arrive and next week they will arrive. Pfizer vaccines again”Said Paris at the press conference after the delivery of the balance of coronavirus cases.
However, he warned that “probably, as the information from the same laboratory says, there will be a reduction in the amount of vaccines for a while, and then actually be able to increase production, and obviously, be able to deliver a greater quantity later” .
He also highlighted that “in parallel, after January 20, we hope that the ISP together with the vaccine experts will study the background of the Sinovac vaccine, which would be arriving, obviously after the ISP approves it, in a dose that exceeds one million units, therefore I call the population to be calm and calm ”.
In this regard, he recalled that the government has set a goal of having at least 5 million inhabitants vaccinated in the first quarter and that by the end of the first of the first semester, l80% of the susceptible population will be vaccinated, since the vaccines have not yet been vaccinated. They are approved for people under 16 and pregnant women.
According to the data released on Saturday by the Ministry of Health, 13,755 people have already been vaccinated, of which 8121 have already received two doses.
