A new batch of 497,250 vaccine doses against COVID-19 from Pfizer pharmaceutical company arrived in Peru on Thursday evening.
On behalf of the Government,
Health Minister Oscar Ugarte was in charge of supervising the cargo arrival at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport.
"As we had announced, today we have received 497,250 new vaccine doses from Pfizer, which are part of the first of three batches of vaccines to be received weekly," he wrote on twitter.
This batch is part of the 62 million vaccines that have been contracted so far, apart from those that might be added thru the end of July.
As of June 18 at 00:05 a.m. (local time), a total of 5,915,906 vaccine doses have been administered in Peru. Within this framework, 2,200,587 people have received both doses.
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