A batch of 251,550 vaccines from Pfizer pharmaceutical company landed at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport on Monday evening,
Health Minister Oscar Ugarte has reported.
"1,215,630 doses of this vaccine are expected to arrive this week," said the minister as he received the new batch, which arrived on a KLM flight.
Ugarte emphasized that people aged 63-64 are already being vaccinated in Metropolitan Lima and Callao, and that the immunization of individuals aged 60, 61, and 62 years will begin soon.
"We will receive more vaccines in the coming days, and we will scale up our capacity to vaccinate more compatriots. We are still keeping our promise," the minister posted on Twitter.
Progress in vaccination process
To date, 1,189,693 people have been administered the two doses of the vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to the digital platform of the National Vaccination Campaign against COVID-19.
In total, 2,734,458 people have received at least the first dose to date.
Ugarte reported that a million doses from Chinese laboratory Sinopharm will arrive on Wednesday and Saturday this week, so "this will mark the largest single-week shipment of vaccines to the country."
On Monday, as the vaccination process was pushed in the capital and regions, Peru updated its death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the working group formed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), from March 1, 2020, to May 22, 2021, 180,764 Peruvians have died due to complications related to the COVID-19 infection.
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Published: 5/31/2021