Washington, United States.
The Chancellor of Honduras Lisandro Rosales, denounced this Friday that an American pharmacist was offering them the vaccine against it COVID-19 at a price four times the market price to deliver it in January 2022, in an interview with Efe On Washington
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“It has to do with the inequality that exists in this issue of the vaccine, which I consider appropriate to analyze,” said the Honduran foreign minister.
In this sense, he remembered the mechanism GAVI / Covax he analyzes this inequality, but according to him “the pharmaceutical companies must put their hands in their conscience”.
The program Covax – promoted by WHO and the Alliance for Vaccines (GAVI) – is committed to global and equitable access to anticovid drugs.
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Rosales pointed out that while there are countries that have guaranteed their supply, others, such as Honduras, are waiting to immunize their populations.
“There are countries that have bought five vaccines for every inhabitant and there are countries that have not yet managed to vaccinate the population we need,” the foreign minister complained.
According to the Chancellor, Honduras He has received doses of Covax and has been in contact with pharmaceutical companies to purchase them, but “unfortunately” demand has outpaced production, which has delayed the arrival of vaccines in his country.
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Rosales indicated that Honduras is accumulating 4,715 kill and ones 194,000 infected, has already been immunized 53,000 people thanks to a donation from 5,000 vaccines by Israel already 48,000 they received from the distribution mechanism Covax
Asked about the possibility that they will resort to USA To request doses, the head of Honduran diplomacy stated that they had not made any request to Washington. EFE