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President Ivan duque announced that agreements were closed with Pfizerpor for 10 million vaccines and Astrazeneca for 10 million dose against COVID.
In addition, he said that a deal was closed with the Covax platform to obtain another 20 million doses, for a total of 40 million
For its part, the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, confirmed that in January the trial vaccination against the coronavirus and in February the application of the immunizer would start in a massive way.
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In addition, the minister emphasized that the vaccine plan will not include, for the moment, that of COVID
Regarding the population, “Neither minors nor pregnant women will be the initial subjects for vaccination”, said the Minister of Health.
“We already have the identified names of the people who will be a priority for their vaccination”said the official.
“We are going to have 5 stages for vaccination. The first will be for health and logistics workers. The second will be for adults from 60 to 79 years“he reported.
Likewise, Ruiz explained that in order to generate a herd immunity, it would have to vaccinate 35,734,649 Colombians, that is, 70% of the population.
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