Tegucigalpa.
Honduras authorized the use this month Covishield vaccine, made in India, as a method to deal with the covid-19 pandemic, a disease that leaves over 173,000 infections and 4,260 deaths in the country, an official source in Tegucigalpa reported.
The use of the Indian vaccine has been authorized by Sanitary Regulatory Agency (ground) from Honduras after receiving a request from the Ministry of Health and evaluating the documentation provided by the World Health Organization (WHO).
vaccine, developed by the British University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, was approved under the “emergency use” certificate, Arsa detailed in a statement.
“The people of Honduras can be sure that this decision is based on emergency use authorizations issued by regional regulators, such as: Health Canada; The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Technology (ANMAT) of Argentina and numerous publications of prestigious scientific research, “he stressed.
Sanitary Regulatory Agency indicated that it “positively values” the contributions of academia and other regulatory bodies that seek “the well-being of the population and the protection of health in Honduras“.
The institution also reaffirmed its commitment to contribute to “processes that facilitate the investigation and evaluation of possible therapeutic options by adopting agile regulatory decisions, without neglecting the scientific rigor of health.”
Promoting the Covax / Gavi Alliance World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today that it will deliver 139,200 doses of covid-19 vaccines to Honduras in the coming days, out of a total of 428,000 allocated to the country.
According to the government, Honduras will purchase 4.2 million doses of Russian vaccine at a price of less than $ 10 each, after the regulatory agency authorized its use in the country.
The authorities in Honduras Health and Finance continue to review the details of the contract submitted by Russia for the purchase of 4.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine SARS-CoV-2 2.1 million Hondurans.
At the end of February, the country received a donation of 5,000 doses of Moderna vaccine from Israel, which have already been applied to the medical staff at the forefront of the pandemic.