This Saturday, around 2:45 pm, on a flight of the KLM airline, with the route Beijing-Amsterdam-Bogotá, they arrived 958,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine.
This is one of two flights in Beijing, China, expected this weekend to strengthen the National Vaccination Plan, which aims to immunize more than 70% of Colombians against covid-19.
The disembarkation was made on the passenger platform and, subsequently, as dictated by the nationalization procedure, it will be made in the warehouse of the DHL transport company.
Doses of Chinese vaccine They will be transferred to the warehouse of the Ministry of Health in the Free Zone, in Bogotá, where the process of entering the freezers will begin..
Thus, 1,505,880 doses from this batch will be completed.
The second flight is expected this Sunday around 9:00 pm. In this 547,880 more doses will arrive, on a flight of Air France that fulfills the route Beijing-Paris-Bogotá.
These doses are part of the trade agreement signed by Colombia for the purchase of 2.5 million doses with which it hopes to immunize 1.25 million Colombians.
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