Vaccination in Colombia will begin in January or February according to President Iván Duque – Government – Politics



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The President assures that in Colombia there will not be a new isolation due to the pandemic.

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President Iván Duque

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December 16, 2020, 07:27 am


President Iván Duque announced that Between the months of January and February, vaccination will begin in Colombia against covid-19.

The president, in an interview with the Barranquilla newspaper El Heraldo published in its edition this Wednesday, said that the national government is a member of the Covax global initiative, and In parallel, it has been carrying out bilateral talks with four companies. “These conversations take place within the framework of a confidentiality agreement. We will be informing the country once we have closed the contracts, “he added.

(Also read: The Government’s reasons for the covid vaccine to be voluntary)

Duque reiterated that “the country will have that vaccination cycle and we will try to make it as widespread as possible. We will try to develop it with all the speed and with a singular logistical capacity ”.

(Covid-19: 10,130 new cases and 161 more deaths in Colombia)

In conversation the Head of State informed that there will be no new isolation in the entire country.

According to El Heraldo, Duque stated that the pandemic in the country has not had a uniform behavior, for which they have not raised the possibility of decreeing a new generalized isolation.

(Also: How does the new vaccine law benefit Colombians?)

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