The country will receive a new shipment of vaccines against COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
The vaccines that will arrive in the country will be through the COVAX mechanism, which was the first agreement signed by the Dominican Government to obtain vaccines against the virus.
As reported by Public Health, the new batch will arrive at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and will enter through the International Airport of the Americas. 96 thousand doses are expected.
The COVAX program, created by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the GAVI Vaccine Alliance to distribute anti-vaccine vaccines worldwide, will send 26 million vaccines to Latin American countries, mainly from AstraZeneca, by March and May, according to the EFE news agency.
Similarly, the agency explained at the time that the Dominican Republic would receive 463,000 doses in a first batch.
The Agreement with the Global Equitable Access Fund to Vaccines Against COVID-19 (COVAX) states that the country will receive a total of 2,169,600 vaccines, in exchange for US $ 22,889,280.