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After having signed bilateral contracts with the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Pfizer, President Iván Duque announced the national vaccination plan against covid-19, which will begin in January with the application of millions of doses.
This process, according to the timeline described, began last June with conversations with different pharmaceutical houses and adherence to the COVAX mechanism and will be projected until December 2021 in different stages.
According to the schedules, vaccination will begin in the first weeks of January, when it is planned to apply a little less than two million doses to the prioritized populations.
According to the information provided, the available doses will be those provided by the agreements with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, totaling 20 million doses, of which at least half would be available in February. And it is expected that by the end of March the first batch of those delivered by the COVAX strategy will be completed. Those from AstraZeneca will arrive in April.
Under the proposed scheme, it is expected to cover at least 70 percent of the Colombian population, which would provide useful immunity against the coronavirus. By subtracting the 1.5 million reported cases of covid-19 so far, it would give a total of 34.2 million citizens eligible to immunize.
And taking into account that there are 40 million doses available to vaccinate 20 million people, between phase 1 and the beginning of phase 2, 58.4 percent of the population will have been covered.
HEALTH UNIT
