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Peru: First batch of 350,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to arrive on Thursday

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13:02 | Lima, May. 5.

The first batch of 350,000 vaccine doses against COVID-19 from Pfizer pharmaceutical company will land in Lima on the evening of May 6, while a similar amount will arrive the following day, Health Minister Oscar Ugarte announced on Wednesday.

In this sense, the high-ranking official stressed that Peru will start to receive 700,000 weekly doses.

"We are in a pace of increasing vaccines and, if they are expanded with other alternatives that are in progress, we will have the capacity to expand even beyond that," he expressed.

Along these lines, the Cabinet member reiterated that 5 million people can be vaccinated until July 28, 2021, as Peru has the capacity and human resources to meet that goal.

On the other hand, the high-ranking official reported that the Ministry of Health (Minsa) is preparing protocols to start soon the vaccination of the population suffering from comorbidities.

"In the case of patients who need hemodialysis, it will be relatively simple because they go to hospitals, clinics or hemodialysis centers regularly. Therefore, that is where they can get vaccinated, while others will get vaccinated at home," he said in remarks to RPP.

Moreover, the minister urged the elderly population to attend vaccination centers on their scheduled dates.

Referring to the various COVID-19 variants that have appeared in other countries around the world, Ugarte said that the variant from India has not been found in Peru yet.

Finally, he clarified that the international list, which places Peru in 13th place in the number of doses per inhabitant in vaccination, includes the batches that have not yet arrived in the country.

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Publicado: 5/5/2021