Duque announced that 192,000 more vaccines will arrive this weekend – Government – Politics

President Iván Duque confirmed that another batch of covid-19 vaccines will arrive in Colombia this weekend. It will be a batch of 192,000 doses of Sinovac that will arrive in the country.

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“We continue to advance in the National Vaccination Plan. This weekend 192 thousand doses of Sinovac. We will continue to progressively receive the doses necessary to vaccinate 35 million Colombians in 2021, “he published on his account.

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Colombia received the first vaccines against the disease on Monday. 50,000 in total, which will be distributed in various cities of the country to start the National Vaccination Plan.

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This Tuesday the vaccines that arrived in the country are expected to be mobilized. Sincelejo and Montería will be the first cities where vaccination will begin.

Meanwhile, Veronica Luz Machado Torres This Wednesday will be the first person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the country. With it, the National Vaccination Plan will officially begin.

Verónica has been working in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo for three years. The municipality of Buenavista (Sucre) was born. She has lived in Sincelejo for 20 years, when she arrived in this capital with the dream of studying nursing, a goal she fulfilled when she entered the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla.

“I am very grateful to the President and the Minister of Health because they have given us the means to do our work and do it safely. We have had the provision on time and the proper training, “said the nurse who will be the first Colombian to receive the pfizer vaccine.