San Salvador, El Salvador.
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, rejected on Saturday that the vaccination process against covid-19 in the country is slow and assured that the health system manages to vaccinate daily more than 1% of the target population, which is 4.5 million Salvadorans.
“Every day we vaccinate over 1% of the target population. Countries that go so fast in the world are counted on hand,” the president said on Twitter.
The message was in response to a publication in the local media La Premsa Gràfica, which has a report entitled “Slow rate of vaccination” on its cover this Saturday.
the Savior registered 50,242 vaccines on Friday, adding two days in which it exceeds 50,000 applications, to total 150,364 immunizations between last Wednesday and Friday.
The data of the Ministries of Health (MINSAL) indicate that the country got a total of 460,565 vaccines applied, of which at least 13,087 are second dose.
With these figures and by subtracting the second doses applied, the country would be reaching 9.94% of its target population.
According to the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabi, pharmaceutical companies have committed to delivering 6.7 million doses and a shipment of 96,000 AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the COVAX system of the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to arrive in the coming days .
With the new batch, the Savior would add more than 1.33 million doses in its possession, of which 1.15 million are from the Sinovac formula, Including 150,000 donated by the Government of China.
The Ministry of Health has reserved information on the “National Vaccination Deployment Plan“Against covid-19, the” Register of booths intended for vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2“And the” SARS-Cov-2 Vaccine Procurement Processes. “
the health authorities officially register 67,404 people infected, Of which 63,685 have recovered, 2,072 died and 1,647 are “active.”