San Salvador, El Salvador.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied on Saturday that the vaccination process against covid-19 in the country is slow and assured that the health system manages to vaccinate more than 1% of the target population daily, ie 4.5 million Salvadorans.
“Every day we vaccinate more than 1% of the target population. Countries that go so fast in the world are counted manually,” the president said on Twitter.
The message was in response to a publication in the local press La Prensa Gráfica, which has on its cover on Saturday a report entitled “Slow vaccination rate”.
Savior recorded 50,242 vaccinations on Friday, which added two days in which it exceeds 50,000 applications, for a total of 150,364 immunizations between Wednesday and Friday.
Data from Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health) indicate that the country has reached a total of 460,565 vaccines applied, of which at least 13,087 are secondary doses.
With these figures and by reducing the second dose applied, the country would reach 9.94% of the target population.
According to the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, The pharmaceuticals have pledged to deliver 6.7 million doses and a shipment of 96,000 AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the World Health Organization (WHO) COVAX system is expected to arrive in the next few days.
With the new batch, Savior would add over 1.33 million doses in his possession, of which 1.15 million come from the Sinovac formula, including 150,000 donated by the Chinese Government.
The Ministry of Health has reserved information on “National Vaccination Implementation Plan“against covid-19,” the registry of vaccination booths against SARS-CoV-2“and” Procedures for the procurement of SARS-Cov-2 vaccines “.
health authorities officially registered 67,404 people infected, of which 63,685 recovered, 2,072 died and 1,647 are “active”.