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  • Peru secures COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunize 12 million people

    Source: https://andina.pe/Ingles/noticia-per...le-815299.aspx

    Peru secures COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunize 12 million people
    14:12 | Lima, Sep. 25.

    A member of the Vaccine Command, Antonio Pratto, on Friday announced that the agreement completed with Pfizer laboratories to supply 9.9 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to Peru, as well as the 13 million doses to be procured through the Covax Facility mechanism, will allow Peru to set up an immunization program firstly aimed at the personnel on the front line of the pandemic and the most vulnerable citizens.

    Pratto confirmed that the Pfizer vaccines, or at least the first batch of them, will arrive in Peru between December and January.

    On the other hand, he noted that the vaccines managed by the Covax Facility —which were expected to arrive in the second half of 2020, because it coordinates with nine different laboratories— would do so in the first quarter of next year, as stated by Deputy Public Health Minister Luis Suarez...
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