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Batch of 350,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Peru

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09:22 | Lima, May. 7.

The first batch of 350,000 vaccine doses against COVID-19 from Pfizer pharmaceutical company has arrived in Peru, which was received by Labor and Employment Promotion Minister Javier Palacios.

The cargo landed at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport on Thursday evening (local time) on a KLM flight from the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Minister Palacios noted that this new batch will speed up the inoculation process, noting that the work done by President Sagasti and State ministers in the negotiation for the vaccines will benefit more citizens throughout the country.

"The arrival of these doses gives us hope, because we need to make more rapid strides in this immunization process. This batch has gotten here thanks to the efforts made by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the efforts led by the President of the Republic Francisco Sagasti and Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez in order to reach a new agreement with Pfizer," he expressed.



"This will be delivered before the end of the year. Thus, we complete 60 million doses to immunize all Peruvians prior to the end of the year," he said.


So far, 1,241,000 Peruvians have received the first dose of the vaccine, while 651,000 have gotten the second one.

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Published: 5/7/2021