Lots arrive with 205,000 vaccines against covid-19 in Honduras

Tegucigalpa

Honduras received 205,000 doses of vaccines against covid-19 to continue immunizing its population.

the vaccines arrive in two batches, the first was of the bilateral purchases that the Government has with the pharmaceutical Pfizer to acquire 4.4 million doses of his inoculantes.

There were 105,300 doses that reached the Toncontín airport and were subsequently taken to the National Biological Warehouse where they are kept under the required cold chain.

The lot was received by authorities of the Ministry of Health, of the Extensive Immunization Program and the Government, Who stated that through purchases with Pfizer have received more than 800,000 doses of the anticovid vaccine.

These vaccines will be used during the vaccinated which begins today and second doses will be applied to more than 126,000 Hondurans by Francisco Morazán.

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In the afternoon also arrived in the country 100,000 doses of Astrazeneca vaccine, these were given by the Government of Spain as part of the strategy to support countries in combating the pandemic affecting the entire world.

Mass vaccination aims to prevent more deaths from this disease.

The Deputy Minister of Health, Nery Cerrato, thanked the noble gesture of the friendly country and at the same time called on the population to go to the points of vaccination.

“The inoculation of Hondurans is a fact, please go to the nearest vaccination sites, this way we are protecting our loved ones and complications will be avoided in case of contracting the covid-19”.

Cases. Contagions and deaths due to the covid-19 continue to rise, this week the number of deaths increased by 75% over the previous week, Health Surveillance reported.

To date, Honduras has reported more than 328,000 infections, of which 207,000 have been confirmed so far in 2021.