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President Iván Duque announced on Monday morning that today the first 50,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrive in Colombia, which will be available for the first vaccination day in the country, on February 20.
The president indicated that the first doses will arrive in the country in the afternoon, from Belgium, and is the first shipment of a block of 1,650,000 vaccines that will arrive in the country in the next three weeks.
(Also read: Colombians are waiting for the start of the vaccination plan)
Health Minister Fernando Ruiz said on W Radio that vaccination could start before February 20. “Initially, the vaccination was scheduled to begin on February 20 (…) we will surely start a couple of days before. In Prevention and Action we will surely announce when the first puncture will occur,” he said. However, he did not confirm a date.
Duque also indicated that “we have set the goal of vaccinating one million Colombians in the first 30 days of the vaccination process,” and added that “we set ourselves the goal of massively vaccinating Colombians, so that by the end of 2021 we would have more than 35 million of us have been vaccinated, about 70 percent of our population, which will allow us to be close to herd immunity and to face 2022 leaving behind the fears of the pandemic. “
“Today we remember all the victims of Covid-19. More than 57,000 Colombians who have left us an irreplaceable void and whom we are going to honor by fighting the virus with the vaccine,” said the Colombian president.
The plane from Miami is expected to land in Colombia around 1:35 pm, at which point the transmission will begin. Once the biologicals have been landed, President Iván Duque Márquez will offer a statement to the country.
The batch of vaccines will be transferred to the warehouse of the Ministry of Health, in the free zone, following the required security measures and with the accompaniment of the Public Force.
These vaccines are stored at temperatures below 70 degrees, which is why it is not possible to have direct access to the biologicals and have images of them.
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