Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced on Wednesday that vaccination against COVID-19 will begin in the country on Thursday, after the expected arrival of the first 10,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
“This morning, at 5:00 in the morning, the plane that brings the first 10,000 doses of vaccine from the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratory in our country took off from Belgium,” the president of La Moneda announced.
As he stated, “the plane will arrive in Chile tomorrow around 7:00 in the morning and we are ready and ready to start a vaccination process.”
“This means that, starting tomorrow, Chile will begin its vaccination process, which will be carried out gradually, just as the shipments of vaccines will arrive periodically and systematically in our country,” the president clarified.
Piñera explained that Chile has managed to “provide over 10 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and over 10 million Sinovac vaccine (…) We will have over 30 million doses of vaccine in the country.”
To date, Chile has already added 589,189 confirmed cases, with 559,845 patients recovered and 16,217 deaths. Currently, 683 people are hospitalized in the ICU, of which 516 require mechanical breathing and 58 are in critical condition, according to the latest official data on Tuesday.