Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In the coming months, Honduras will begin receiving more vaccines against covid-19 to protect the rest of the health workers and at-risk groups.
With the announcement of the Covax mechanism that the country will receive between March and May 424,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, plus the negotiations with which the country closes Russia will purchase 140,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine., more than 564,000 doses of inoculators are expected to arrive in Honduras in the coming months. With this amount, most eligible groups will be vaccinated during the first phase of vaccination.
Conformable Vaccine introduction plan Against covid-19, in the first phase, it is intended to vaccinate 297,150 Hondurans, among health workers, elderly adults in nursing homes and care centers, adults over 60 with comorbidities, security staff, primary care help and Public employees of the powers of the state that pay direct attention.
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The Minister of Health, Alba Consuelo Flores, indicated that these doses will allow the completion of the process and the vaccination of the priority groups. “Starting with the third week of March, we will carry out a sufficiently sustained vaccination process to favor first the medical staff and then the people in general who are medically fit to apply the vaccine,” the official said.
Arrival of doses
The Minister reminded that the Government also conducts negotiations with other companies to buy more vaccines. He assured that in the next few days they will announce the closing of agreements with some pharmaceutical companies.
Ida Berenice Molina, boss Comprehensive Immunization Program (IAP) from the Ministry of Health, announced to the PRESS that the Covax donation will start to be received from the third week of March. “It will be progressive, the first shipment of vaccines that we have been notified is 48,000 doses, we are waiting tomorrow (today) to receive the purchase order where they will specify the exact day when the vaccine will be sent by PAHO,” he explained. Also, next week is expected to receive the Covax calendar with monthly delivery dates that would complete 424,800 dosess.
The first 48,000 doses are expected to be applied before the end of March, but the expiry date of the medicine will be reviewed to decide whether to apply a single dose to the same number of people or to save half for the second dose.
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Vaccine keys 1. Acquisition and investment Government authorities did not want to disclose how much money is being invested in the purchase of vaccines, but only referred to the fact that the necessary resources are being used to purchase them. They reported that there are about six million doses they will buy. 2. Agreements with companies In recent days, the Government has announced that agreements are being finalized with the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and the Sputnik V vaccine, so that they reach the country; There will be more news in the next few days, authorities said. 3. They manage vaccines The September 15 Foundation of Hondurans living in the United States, together with the Honduran Medical College (CMH) and US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, manages the transportation of covid-19 vaccines to the population due to the delayed arrival of vaccines in the country |
“It would apply to health workers; We are waiting to receive the information, because the technical decisions will be made depending on the expiration date of the vaccine, we can not risk applying the first dose and not getting the second dose, we must have the schedule and make sure we go to be received monthly “, he explained.
The Covax mechanism will donate over 3.8 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine in 2021 to immunize 1.9 million Hondurans.
In addition, by mid-March, authorities expect the first batch of Russian Sputnik V vaccines to arrive, which will consist of 70,000 doses, according to Chancellor Lisandro Rosales. A second delivery of the drug will be another 70,000 doses. late, he said Chancellor a few days ago.