San Salvador, El Salvador.
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, on Saturday rejected that the country’s covid-19 vaccination process is slow and assured that the health system is managing to reach more than 1% of the target population, i.e. 4.5 million Salvadorans, on a daily basis. vaccinate.
“Every day we vaccinate more than 1% of the target group. The countries that are moving so fast in the world are counted by hand,” the president said on Twitter.
The message was in response to a local media publication La Prensa Gráfica, which appeared on the cover of a report entitled “Slow vaccination coverage” last Saturday.
The Savior 50,242 vaccinations were registered Friday, adding two more days of more than 50,000 applications, for a total of 150,364 vaccinations between Wednesday and Friday.
The data of the Ministry of Health (Minsal) indicate that the country reached a total of 460,565 vaccines applied, of which at least 13,087 were second doses.
With these figures and by subtracting the applied second doses, the country would reach 9.94% of its target population.
According to the Minister of Health Francisco Alabí, Pharmaceuticals have committed to deliver 6.7 million doses and a shipment of 96,000 AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the World Health Organization (WHO) COVAX system is expected to arrive in the coming days.
With the new batch, The Savior would add more than 1.33 million doses in his possession, of which 1.15 million are of the Sinovac formula, including 150,000 donated by the Chinese government.
The Ministry of Health has reserved information on the “National plan for vaccination“Against Covid-19,” the Registry of Huts for Vaccination Against SARS-CoV-2and the “Processes for the Procurement of Vaccines Against SARS-Cov-2”.
The health authorities officially register 67,404 infected people, of whom 63,685 have recovered, 2,072 are deceased and 1,647 are “active”.