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At 7.34 am today, the second shipment of coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories arrived in Chile, which, like the first shipment that was received in Chile on December 24, must pass through a control process to finally be dispatched by helicopter to the vaccine collection center.
As indicated by the Government, 11,700 new doses of the vaccine come in this shipment, thus exceeding 20 thousand doses in the country.
Remember that this vaccine must maintain a cold chain from deep freezing to -75 ° C for safekeeping pending preparation and shipment to vaccination sites.
President Sebastián Piñera, along with the Ministers of Health, Enrique Paris and Foreign Relations, Andrés Allamand and other authorities were present while the vaccines were loaded into the Carabineros helicopter for transfer to the collection center upon arrival at the airport in Santiago.
The route of the plane had its origin from Puurs, Belgium, on December 30 in the early morning of Chile. After this, the vaccines had a technical scale in the United States, before undertaking the final trip to Santiago.
As reported, our country has acquired 10 million doses of vaccines from this laboratory, which will be complemented by the agreements that have been reached with the laboratories of Sinovac, AstraZeneca-Oxford, Jensen – Johnsson & Johnsson and the Covax Alliance. The objective, as indicated by the country’s authorities, is vaccinate the 15 million people that make up the target population in the first semester.
The Government together with the Advisory Council for Vaccines and Immunization (CAVEI) have established the order of priority for the vaccination process. In addition to start with health personnel working in Critical Patient Units, the program contemplates the following priorities, depending on the risk levels of the different groups: First, people deployed in the Covid emergency. Second, the Elderly and the Chronically Ill, prioritizing those from Long Stay Centers. And third, the other groups of the target population, according to their degree of risk.
