This Monday, April 5, will culminate with the application of the first dose to teachers in the public education sector and will begin with teachers in the private system. However, the Government has classified as confidential all information on vaccines, including acquisitions.
The vaccination process against COVID-19 for older adults and people with chronic illnesses will begin on Wednesday, April 7, President Nayib Bukele reported on Sunday night.
“On Wednesday we started with people with chronic degenerative diseases and with our older adults,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
In addition, he announced that for Monday, April 12, “the Mega Vaccination Center will be inaugurated, with a capacity to serve 10,000 people per day. This will put us at a rate of 30,000 people daily.”
However, Bukele did not clarify why they will not be used for this purpose the vaccination modules in which the Government made a millionaire expenditure months ago. In the words of the Minister of Health, Francesc Alabi, in January, the health strategy the cost itself set at $ 5 million, and for which he has received criticism from the same body of doctors and nurses, “does not involve just place a bucket, ”he alleged.
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Regarding the vaccination of teachers in the public education sector, the president said that this Monday will culminate the process and immediately begin with the application of the first dose against COVID-19 for teachers in the private sector .
He added that on Thursday they plan to vaccinate university teachers, with whom they would finish the process next Sunday, April 11th.
However this information on how the vaccination process is going is not possible to verify it because the Government has classified as confidential all information about vaccines, Including acquisitions.
During the reception of the fourth batch of vaccines on March 28, the Minister of Health said that with these doses it was expected to “cover our 50,000 teachers before returning to classes this coming April 6.”
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Now, Bukele also claimed that the country will receive a donation of 150,000 doses against COVID-19 from China, the arrival will be on Tuesday night.
According to the president, the vaccines “are in addition to the 2 million acquired in Sinovac by our government.”
However, the Salvadoran government has not made public the cost of the vaccines it has acquired.
The Ministry of Health (MINSAL) declared the total reservation of information related to the application and purchase of vaccines against COVID-19, so that it closes the access to these data for periods of between 3 and 5 years, according to a document from the MINSAL Reserved Information Index, Updated on March 11 on its transparency site.
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Given the government’s statement of reservation on information on the acquisition of vaccines and the process of supplying them, transparency experts say that this affects the right of people to be informed about issues related to vaccines. his health and his life.