The Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña, announced that a plane with 500 thousand doses of vaccines has already taken off from China, which is scheduled to arrive in the country on Wednesday afternoon.
The aircraft is scheduled to fly into the Dominican territory at 4:30 pm through Brussels. Peña indicated that with the arrival of the batch of vaccines, starting with Thursday, the National Vaccination Plan will be consolidated, resuming the inoculation of the first doses for people over 68 years of age.
“We announce that a plane with 500 thousand doses of vaccines has just taken off from China, the Flag of China, which will arrive in our country the Flag of the Dominican Republic tomorrow afternoon. As long as we continue to receive batches of vaccines, we will continue to vaccinate! “Says one of the tweets published tonight by the vice president.
He reiterated that the person who comes to one of the vaccination centers that accompanies an adult over the age of 75 to apply their first dose on Thursday can also be vaccinated.
“Starting Thursday, we will resume the initiative” Vaccine 2: I carry your red heart “! With which the companion of a person over 75 years old who goes to a # VacúnateRD center to receive the first dose, will be able to receive his vaccine “, he wrote.
The Dominican Republic is one of the countries in the region with the largest number of people vaccinated against coronavirus, with more than one million beneficiaries at the end of March, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.
By that time, 101,528 people had already received the second dose.
I announced that it just took off from China ???? a plane with 500 thousand doses of vaccines, which will arrive in our country ???? Tomorrow afternoon. As long as we continue to receive many vaccines, we will continue to vaccinate! # VacúnateRD pic.twitter.com/MfvjIDMVjS
– Raquel Peña (@RaquelPenaVice) April 21, 2021