The armed forces stay away from the distribution of vaccines

The Armed Forces will remain outside the process of distribution of vaccines against covid-19, clarified this Wednesday the coordinator of the workgroup created by the Government for this work in audience in the Assembly of the Republic.

“It is the company that will deliver the vaccines. The distribution in the continent will not be done by the Armed Forces, the responsibility of the distribution process will be with the elements that collaborate with us. The Armed Forces vehicles will not make this distribution, it will be done to through organizations “. and instruments certified and licensed for that “, he stated.

Requested by the Health Committee and the Eventual Committee to monitor the implementation of the pandemic response measures on the logistics of distribution of the Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine scheduled for the first phase of the vaccination plan, Francisco Ramos also confirmed the three locations. administration of doses: one in the Peninsula and one in each of the autonomous communities.

The coordinator of the workgroup assured that the rules of administration of the vaccine will be known “this week”, that the consumables for team the vaccinations “are planned” and that “security is guaranteed by the security forces”, recalling that the Ministry of Internal Administration is also represented in the group constituted to define the plan and means of vaccination of the population.

In the same way, Francisco Ramos reiterated that a “developed and expanded version of the vaccination plan” will be presented at the end of this week.. However, he added that changes may still appear during the process, since it is “a plan that must always be prepared to be reviewed.”

For the first phase of the vaccination plan, which must be carried out between January and March 2021, the vaccination points were defined taking into account the priority groups in accessing the vaccine: people over 50 with associated pathologies, residents and workers . in homes, health professionals and essential services.