Haitian Health Minister Marie Greta Roy has officially declared in writing to the Gavi Vaccine Alliance the country’s rejection of the AstraZeneca complex and called for it to provide another preparation more suited to its reality.
This was announced by the Haitian Minister of Culture and Communication, Pradel Henríquez, who made the announcement in a note published on social networks.
The country wrote to the above-mentioned entity, responsible for the distribution of vaccine vaccines in poor countries, “to reject the AstraZeneca vaccine and ask them to replace it with a more appropriate vaccine in Haiti.”
Pradel also indicated that there are other vaccines that the country can receive, such as those manufactured by Johnson & Johnson or Moderna laboratories. However, the refrigeration systems required for the Pfizer vaccine are missing.
“In summary, the Haitian authorities have not rejected the idea of a vaccine to protect our population against covid-19, but simply want to negotiate a vaccine very different from AstraZeneca,” the note concludes.
Haiti is one of four countries in the world that has not started vaccinating against covid-19, but its government has rejected the AstraZeneca vaccine for fear that the population will reject it after cases of thrombosis detected in Europe, he said. Efe. A source from the Executive last Tuesday.
Haiti is one of 92 low-income countries that have gained access to the covid-19 vaccine through the Gavi Covax AMC mechanism, which, like the rest of the participating countries, has allocated a number of doses to the Caribbean nation. from its population until the end of 2021.
In the first round of Covax vaccine allocation, 756,000 doses manufactured by the Serum Institute in India under license from AstraZeneca were allocated to Haiti.