Colombia exceeds the barrier of 40 million vaccines against the coronavirus applied

Colombia exceeded the barrier of 40 million vaccines applied against coronavirus covid-19, at a time when the country adds daily numbers of infections similar to those of the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health confirmed this Thursday.

According to the daily report of the health authority, 254,984 doses were applied on Wednesday, with which a total of 40,168,278 serums have been administered in the country.

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“I am very happy that today we have already achieved the 40 million doses applied in our country”, stressed the president Ivan Duque in statements to journalists.

With the vaccines administered in the country, 16,811,660 people already have the complete immunization schedule, while 23,356,618 have received only one dose.

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“We are on our way to meet our goal for the month and also to meet our goal for the year, which is to achieve at least 70% of the population, 35 million Colombians, with total vaccination”, Duque advanced.

Although the president celebrated the advances in immunization and the fall in the data of infections and deaths, he warned: “We cannot lower our guard, we must keep our guard up, face masks (mask), distancing, hand washing, disinfection and biosafety protocols ”.

In addition, he stressed that the National Vaccination Plan, which was launched last February, “continues to extend immunization” in minors, a population that “were not in the original plan” because at that time the country did not have “the scientific endorsement ”.

COLOMBIA RECEIVES MORE VACCINES

On Wednesday, the country received 338,130 doses from the Pfizer laboratory through a bilateral mechanism, a batch with which it has already received 94% of the vaccines agreed with that pharmaceutical company.

With these sera, pregnant women, population 12 to 17 years old and those who need to complete their vaccination schedules will be immunized.

Colombia has received 15,611,310 doses from Pfizer, of which 1,209,780 are part of the Covax mechanism and 14,401,530 have reached the country through the bilateral agreement.

“The agreement with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer represents approximately 20% of the total vaccines purchased by 2021, with the aim of meeting the goals of the National Vaccination Plan against covid-19,” said the chief of staff of the Ministry of Health, Germán Escobar.

The country has received a total of 48,797,234 doses, of which 5,373,780 came through the Covax mechanism; 6,957,600, through donations from the United States and Spain; 2,100,000 were acquired by the private sector and 34,365,854 through bilateral agreements.

Colombian health authorities have confirmed 4,955,848 infections since the beginning of the health emergency, of which only 15,892 remain active, and the pandemic has left 126,261 fatalities.

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