The announcements included new appointments to his Cabinet of Governors, a reform of the SWOT Act and others related to the Covid-19 vaccination plan.
On Sunday, April 4, President Bukele said via Twitter that in the next few hours he would give several important announcements to Salvadorans. The list includes from a donation of thousands of covid-19 vaccines to new appointments in his Cabinet, here we review the most important.
1. “I received a letter from President Xi Jinping informing me that he will donate to our country 150,000 vaccines against # COVID19 “, Bukele wrote on the social network. This batch of vaccines arrived in the country on Tuesday night, April 6. This was the third shipment received by El Salvador, reaching a total of 1,250,000 vaccines against Covid-19.
2. All public sector teachers received the vaccine to announce the president, who also confirmed that on Monday 5 April all teachers in this sector would be vaccinated and that on the same day they would start with those in the private sector, and then continue with teachers university students.
3. On Wednesday, April 7, he leaves initiated the vaccination plan for people with chronic degenerative diseases and older adults.
4. Other of the most important ads is the inauguration of the megacentre of vaccination scheduled for Monday, April 12th. This will have a capacity to serve 10,000 people per day, according to Bukele.
5. New Minister of the Interior, Joan Carles Bidegaín. Bukele announced on Twitter about the new appointment in his cabinet, who previously worked as a director in the Deputy Ministry of Transport and from September 2020 to date coordinated from the Ministry of Health the logistics of the logistics of the PES, of the SEM and the IECEES. Bidegaín, son of the current Minister of Education was captured in 2019 and placed under the order of a Justice of the Peace of San Salvador in attention to a red broadcast or international arrest warrant issued by the International Police (Interpol) , according to Salvadoran court documents.
6. New reform of the FUCK law. Bukele announced that mayors will no longer receive 10% of the state’s current revenue, but 6%, where 25% will be for operating expenses and 75% for works in communities. In turn, Bukele mentions that the National Directorate of Municipal Works will be created which will be responsible for approving the projects requested by the mayors.
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7. They enable the website to schedule the day of vaccination against COVID-19: vaccinacioncovid19.gob.sv. The process should be done according to the priority age groups. Thus, from Wednesday will be people over 80 and patients with chronic diseases who can begin to request an appointment to apply for the first dose, according to authorities.
8. The creation of the National Directorate of Municipal Works with GOES Fund, Which “will be responsible for approving projects requested by mayors.” Álvaro O’Byrne, current director of FOVIAL will be in charge of this direction.
9. New Minister of Agriculture, David Josué Martínez, who has been in the Secretary of Commerce since the beginning of the Bukele Government. “President @nayibbukele, I humbly accept this appointment, I commit myself with enthusiasm and responsibility to fulfill the Master Plan of #RescateAgropecuario, Of which I proudly participated in its creation in order to reactivate our agricultural sector. “, Martinez mentions on Twitter.
10. They stay appointments enabled for vaccination against COVID- 19 for all adults over 70 years. All people belonging to the previous phases remain active, Bukele announced on Twitter.