Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The 48,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine vaccines, as part of the donation of the Covax mechanism, arrived in Honduras on Saturday from South Korea.
The batch of vaccine arrived at 8:00 am on a commercial flight and was received by the President of the Republic, Juan Orlando Hernandez, at Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Base, from Tegucigalpa.
This first batch of vaccines is part of the 139,200 doses that Honduras will receive in March, according to the director general of World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus, informed President Hernández in a statement published this week by Honduran authorities.
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Total, Covax announced a batch of 424,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine for Honduras, to be received between March and May.
With the arrival of these first vaccines that Honduras received as donations from Covax / Gavi, Free national vaccination plan will monitor the immunization of frontline personnel against the pandemic.
In addition to health workers, adults over the age of 60, the population with comorbidities and key workers in the economy are among the priority groups through this vaccination plan.
Distribution
As announced by Health Minister, Alba Consuelo Flores, tomorrow Sunday the vaccines will be distributed to the health regions of the country, including those in the Bay Islands and Gracias a Dios, where they will be transported by Honduran Air Force (FAH).
The rest are transported in land transport units that have cooling systems to maintain the quality of vaccines.
Honduras It has cold chains in the central warehouse and 10 collection centers, which can store 9.4 million doses of vaccines.
The drug for covid-19 from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is a vaccine Monovalent compound composed of a single recombinant adenovirus vector with replication-deficient chimpanzee (ChAdOx1) encoding the S. SARS CoV 2 glycoprotein.
Of interest
Covax indicated that in Honduras, with the first batch of vaccines against covid-19 arriving in the country, 3% of the population will be immunized and will continue with other regular allocations up to 20% of the population, scheduled for the end of 2021.