According to an image uploaded by the Presidential House, some of the vaccines did not enter El Salvador on February 17 as indicated by the Government, but since last February 3
A photo uploaded by the Secretariat of Government Communications on Twitter included a detail that, according to versions circulating on social media, indicates that some of the vaccines against COVID-19 entered El Salvador on February 3, and not on 17 last February, as officially announced by the Government.
If so, the Government kept a number of these vaccines in its possession for 14 days, despite the urgency of initiating the immunization of health personnel fighting the disease.
Vaccines arrived in El Salvador on Feb. 3, according to airline tracking
Journalist Cecibel Romero, who collaborates with Health with Magnifying Glass, identified that one of the boxes delivered Wednesday night at a health post in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión, included a white vignette, which launched a information other than that indicated by the Bukele administration.
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This vignette, with number 406-0229 9253 as this image reveals, is from a shipment from the company UPS, which arrived from Miami to El Salvador on February 3, at 10:17 am. This is registered in the digital system of this shipping company.
Instead, the official speech of the Government is that all 20,000 doses received on February 17 came from a flight from Mumbai, India, from the Spanish company Iberia.
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The finding sparked a series of negative comments against the Government’s work on social media, which in turn provoked a quick reaction from President Nayib Bukele, who uploaded a tweet highlighting his previous speech.
While images of vaccination of front-line personnel are maintained on official government networks, the general population is unaware of the Bukele administration’s plan for other citizens who are interested in immunizing; nor is it known in detail where the 162 vaccination sites announced by the Ministry of Health are, nor is their exact cost.