Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
AstraZeneca’s 48,000 doses of anti-vaccine vaccines, as part of a donation from the COVAX mechanism, arrived in Honduras on Saturday from South Korea.
The batch of vaccine arrived at 8:00 a.m., on a commercial flight, and was received by the President of the Republic, Juan Orlando Hernández, At the Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Base, from Tegucigalpa.
This first batch of vaccines is part of the 139,000 200 doses that Honduras will receive in March, according to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus, informed President Hernández in a statement released this week by the Honduran authorities.
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In total, Covax announce a batch of 424,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine for Honduras to be received between March and May.
With the arrival of these first vaccines that Honduras received as a donation from COVAX / Gavi, the National Free Vaccination Plan will monitor the immunization of front-line staff in the face of the pandemic.
In addition to health workers, adults over the age of 60, the comorbid population, and essential workers in the economy are among the groups prioritized by this vaccination plan.
distribution
As announced by the Minister of Health, Alba Consuelo Flors, tomorrow Sunday will be the distribution of vaccines in the health regions of the country, including those of the Bay Islands and Thank God, where they will be transported by the Honduran Air Force (FAH).
The rest are moved to land transport units that have cooling systems to maintain the quality of the vaccines.
Honduras has cold chains in the central warehouse and 10 stacking centers, so you can store 9.4 million doses of vaccines.
The drug for covid-19 from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is a vaccine monovalent composed of a single vector of deficient replication recombinant chimpanzee adenovirus (ChAdOx1) encoding the SARS VOC 2 glycoprotein.
of interest
COVAX has indicated that in Honduras, with the first batch of vaccines against the covid-19 that it reaches the country, 3% of the population will begin to be immunized, and that it will continue with other regular endowments until it reaches 20% of the population, planned for the end of 2021.