“Until everyone is vaccinated, we are not sure,” said President Luis Abinader, after noting that although vaccination for the second dose began yesterday, it will be tomorrow, Wednesday, when there will be a quantity. larger than people.
After the inauguration of the Caleta Promenade in La Romana, the president asked the population to continue to take care of themselves and maintain social distance this Easter.
He reiterated that he will be vaccinated when he reaches the age level “just like all Dominicans, I will be vaccinated.”
Vaccines
On Wednesday, last week, the country received one million fifty thousand doses of vaccines against COVID-19, this being the largest batch received so far, but it was five days later when the population began to be inoculated with this last transport. .
The Dominican Republic should have received its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca two days ago (March 21), according to the contract signed with the British pharmaceutical company.
The government did not explain the reasons for the delay in this delivery, because the pharmaceutical company had to deliver 400,000 doses of its vaccine, developed together with the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, according to the contract signed with the Dominican state.