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Following the request of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance authorized $ 281 billion for the purchase of about 10 million doses of the vaccine cAgainst the coronavirus from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, which has an estimated efficacy of 70%
Through resolution 2461 of 2020, the public credit portfolio indicates that “In a virtual session on December 15, it was approved to finance, charged to Fome resources, the request to advance the pertinent processes for the acquisition of the vaccine candidate from the company AstraZeneca ”.
This vaccine is listed as the cheapest on the market, since it is around 4 dollars. While Pfizer’s would cost about $ 20.
With this investment, the Government would be allocating about $ 1.1 billion to cover the purchase of vaccines, and it is expected that a total of $ 2.6 billion will have to be invested to cover the vaccination plan.
The other destinations were $ 427 billion to access 10 million vaccines, through the Covax mechanism, and $ 437 billion to purchase 10 million doses of the vaccine from Pfizer.
In addition to this, President Iván Duque He told EL HERALDO last Tuesday that vaccinations in the country would begin in February 2021.
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