MONTEVIDEO (Uypress) – This Thursday the first batch of vaccines against covid-19 will arrive in our country. They will arrive on a Latam flight and it is the vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac.
The first doses of the Chinese vaccine will arrive in Uruguay on Thursday night, radio reported Carve Y The country.
According to the morning paper, a plane from the Latam company has already left for China to bring vaccines for the trans-Andean country, and the first batch for our country will come on that same flight.
“In a framework of international collaboration, we are helping with the logistical process of importing the Coronavac vaccine, that is, bringing doses from China for our country and the same for Uruguay. Thus, once the shipment is in Chile, the The Uruguayan government can transfer them to Montevideo. All the vaccines for this country are financially covered by them,” he said this Monday before the consultation of The country Valentin Diaz, director of Cenabastthe Supply Center of the National Health Services System, dependent on the Chilean Ministry of Health.
“For us it is very important to be able to collaborate with the countries of the southern cone, trying to help, within our possibilities, both in logistics and in other areas that may be fundamental in the context of the pandemic,” he added.
“In order for the import to take place without problems, Cenabast signed a contract with Latam for five exclusive trips, which will allow shortening the transfer times to maintain the quality of this product,” he said.
According to what was timely announced by President Lacalle Pou, the agreement between our country and the Chinese laboratory implies the acquisition of 1,750,000 doses, with a first delivery of 200,000 to start the vaccination plan.
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