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It was a “serious mistake” to get vaccinated in January, before the start of the national vaccination campaignhe said in a statement on the online service Twitter on Sunday (local time). Former President Martín Vizcarra, who was deposed in November last year, is also affected by the scandal (in the photo).
According to reports Thursday, Vizcarra left a few weeks before his impeachment. secretly vaccinate against coronavirus. The former president defended vaccination as a courageous decision because he was one of 12,000 volunteers who participated in a clinical study with the vaccine from the Chinese state company Sinopharm. However, the Lima university responsible for the study announced on Sunday that Vizcarra was not part of the study.
Peru’s Health Minister, Pilar Mazzetti, resigned Friday over the scandal. Oscar Ugarte succeeded her on Saturday. He is the country’s fifth health minister since the pandemic began about a year ago.
Peru only began vaccinating health workers last Tuesday after the first 300,000 doses of Sinopharm arrived in the country a week ago. The Peruvian health system is under great pressure from the pandemic. More than 14,200 people are currently being treated in the hospital for corona infection. There is a lack of oxygen to supply them. (sda / afp)
