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.
"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.
"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.
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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Published: 5/5/2021