Washington, United States.
The Chancellor of Honduras, Lisandro Rosales, Reported this Friday that a US pharmaceutical company offered them the vaccine against covid-19 at a price four times higher than the market to give in January of 2022, In an interview with Efe a Washington.
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“It has to do with the iniquity that exists in this issue of the vaccine, which I consider appropriate to be analyzed,” the Honduran foreign minister said.
In this regard he recalled that the mechanism GAVI / Covax he is conducting an analysis of this inequality, but, according to him, “pharmaceutical companies must get their hands on the conscience.”
the program Covax -promoted by the WHO and the Alliance for Vaccines (GAVI) – seeks to ensure global and equitable access to anticovide drugs.
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Rosales noted that while there are countries that have guaranteed their supply, still others, such as Honduras, are waiting to immunize their population.
“There are countries that have bought 5 vaccines per capita and there are countries that have not yet managed to have that capacity to vaccinate the population we need,” the chancellor lamented.
According to the Chancellor, Honduras has received doses of COVAX and has been in contact with pharmacists to purchase them, but “unfortunately” demand is greater than production, which has meant a delay in the arrival of vaccines in his country.
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Rosales indicated that Honduras, which accumulates 4,715 dead and some 194,000 infected, has already immunized a 53,000 people thanks to a donation of 5,000 vaccines by Israel already 48,000 which they received from the distribution mechanism Covax.
Asked about the possibility of resorting to United States to request a dose, the head of Honduran diplomacy stated that they have not made any request to Washington. EFE