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This Friday the neighboring country received the vaccines. Venezuela will be the first country to have the coronavirus vaccine.
The first country to have the vaccine
According to Caracol Radio, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, received the first batch of the vaccine. It is Sputnik V, a vaccine from Russia.
At the Simón Bolívar International Airport, in La Guaira state, north of Venezuela, the batch arrived.
According to the station, Rodríguez revealed that Venezuela is among the countries that will produce the Russian vaccine against COVID-19. In addition, he stressed that it will be a process that will begin once the phases of scientific research are finished.
For his part, the neighboring country’s Minister of Health, Carlos Alvarado, reported that they will have 2,000 volunteers. These people will participate in phase III clinical trials in the country.
The charge d’affaires of the Russian embassy in Venezuela, Sergei Mélik-Bagdasárov, affirmed that this is a gesture of the alliance that exists between both nations.
“The Russian diplomat said that in recent months the Russian Fund for Direct Investments, the Ministry of Health of Venezuela, and Espromed Bio, worked hard to specify the participation of the South American nation in phase III of the Sputnik V clinical trials. “revealed the same medium.
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