Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The 48,000 doses of AstraZeneca anticovid vaccines, as part of the Covax Mechanism’s donation, arrived in Honduras this Saturday from South Korea.
The batch of vaccine arrived on a commercial flight at 8 a.m. and was received by the President of the Republic, Juan Orlando Hernandez, at the Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Base, in Tegucigalpa
This first batch of vaccines is part of the 139,200 doses that Honduras will receive in March, said the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus, informed President Hernández in a statement released this week by the Honduran authorities
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Total, Covax announced that a batch of 424,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine for Honduras will be received between the months of March and May.
With the advent of these first vaccines that Honduras received as donations from Covax / Gavi, the Free national vaccination plan will oversee the immunization of frontline workers against the pandemic.
In addition to health workers, adults over 60 years old, the co-morbid population and key economic workers are among the groups prioritized in this vaccination plan.
Distribution
As announced by the Minister of Health, Alba Consuelo Flores, tomorrow Sunday the vaccines will be distributed to the health regions of the country, including those of the Bay Islands and Gracias a Dios, where they are Honduran Air Force (FAH)
The remainder is transported in land transport units with cooling systems to maintain the quality of the vaccines.
Honduras It has cold chains in the central warehouse and 10 collection centers, which can store 9.4 million doses vaccines
The drug for covid-19 from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is one vaccine Monovalent compound composed of a single replication deficient recombinant chimpanzee adenovirus vector (ChAdOx1) encoding SARS CoV 2 glycoprotein S.
Of interest
Covax has indicated that in Honduras with the first batch vaccines against COVID-19 that reaches the country, 3% of the population will be immunized, and other periodic allocations will continue until 20% of the population is reached, scheduled for the end of 2021.