A batch of 614,400 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Sinopharm laboratory has arrived in Peru to speed up the vaccination of the population, the
Ministry of Health has reported.
The new batch landed at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport on Saturday evening.
"614,400 doses of the vaccines against COVID-19 arrived in the country tonight. This will increase the number of Peruvians protected from the pandemic," the Ministry of Health stated on its Twitter account.
Health Minister Hernando Cevallos supervised the arrival of this group of jabs, which will be complemented with another delivery today in order to reach a total of 1 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine.
The government official underlined that at least 8 million Peruvians are expected to have received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of August.
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Published: 8/22/2021