Santo Domingo, RD.
Ivelisse Acosta, Deputy Minister of Health Coletiva, said the Dominican Republic will have vaccines soon, but no date has been specified because she said she prefers to be conservative on the issue.
“When you date, you take risks, so it’s good to say the third or fourth week. It was a matter of flow with the producers. And it’s not just here. It is a recurring situation. There are countries that have stopped vaccinations because they lacked them, “Acosta said this morning.
The deputy minister insisted that the country will have vaccines very soon. “We will have vaccines and we will have it soon, I will not venture to tell you the date,” he said.
Ivelisse Acosta emphasized that the logistics for vaccination exist, that they exist. “There are freezers,” he said, adding that 3 more freezers had been purchased to provide conservation logistics.
“The logistics with Pfizer, which is the special one, is available in the country. The training is the same. It is a vaccine, new to a pandemic, but it is the same vaccination as always. It’s still a vaccine, “Acosta said.
Eddy Pérez Then, special adviser for the response to Covid, said he had negotiated with all pharmaceutical companies that currently have vaccines. “It is planned to have (vaccines) soon. It is very risky to say a specific date. The whole world is waiting for the vaccines to come. The important thing is that all vaccines have demonstrated safety and efficacy, “he said.
The Minister of Health acknowledged that they had problems with the supply of the contracted vaccines. Plutarco Arias did not specify the date on which the country could receive the first doses.