The Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña, announced that she has already taken off a plane from China with 500,000 doses of vaccines, which is expected to arrive in the country on Wednesday afternoon.
The aircraft is scheduled to take off on Dominican territory at 4:30 pm via Brussels. Penya indicated that with the batch of vaccines to arrive, from Thursday the National Vaccination Plan will be strengthened, restarting the inoculation of first doses to people over 68 years of age.
“We announce that it recently took off from China, Flag of China, a plane with 500 thousand doses of vaccines, which will arrive in our country Flag of the Dominican Republic morning in the afternoon. As we continue to receive batches of vaccines, we will continue to vaccinate! “, indicates one of the tweets published tonight by the vice president.
He reiterated that the person who goes to one of the vaccination centers from Thursday accompanying an adult over the age of 75 to apply his first dose will also be able to be vaccinated.
“From this Thursday we will resume the initiative” Vaccine2: I take you red heart “! he will be able to receive his vaccine, ”he wrote.
The Dominican Republic is listed as one of the countries in the region with the largest number of people vaccinated against coronavirus, the beneficiaries amount to more than one million at the end of March, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.
By that date, 101,528 people had already received their second dose.
We announce that it recently took off from China ???? a plane with 500 thousand doses of vaccines, which will arrive in our country ???? morning to afternoon. As long as we continue to receive batches of vaccines, we will continue to vaccinate! # VacúnateRD pic.twitter.com/MfvjIDMVjS
– Raquel Peña (@RaquelPenaVice) April 21, 2021