Santo Domingo, RD.
The COVID-19 vaccine was approved on Thursday, December 31 by the Directorate-General for Medicines, Food and Health Products (Digemaps) of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance.
The UK’s AstraZeneca, which will be delivered in the country, has teamed up with the University of Oxford to develop one of the COVID-19 vaccines, which has a number of features compared to the others, including the price, as it has a cost of $ $ 2.8, which would be about $ 163 Dominican pesos per dose. People who get the first dose after 15 days should get the second, the presidency said in a statement.
According to the Dominican government, another advantage is the way of storage and transport, as it can be kept at the temperature of a refrigerator, this would be between two and eight degrees Celsius, which compared to other vaccines, Modern and Pfizer’s. / BioNTech, can only be stored long term at very low temperatures that are difficult to obtain in our tropical country.
The special temporary license for the “COVID-19 AstraZeneca” vaccine has been granted by Digemaps under resolution no. 00053 of December 30, 2020, issued by the Minister of Health and Social Assistance, which authorizes the Directorate-General for Medicines, Food and Health Products (DIGEMAPS ) to grant temporary special authorizations for vaccines against COVID-19, provided that the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and compliance with a set of required requirements are guaranteed to vaccine manufacturers.
The decision to approve the supply of this vaccine was made in accordance with the provisions of the General Health Act 42-01 and related regulations, which allow the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance to take extraordinary measures in the event of an emergency.
We announce that the DIGEMAPS has issued the license that approves for our country the vaccine developed by @UniOxford/@AstraZeneca . Let’s not lower our guard. May God bless the DR!
– Luis Abinader (@luisabinader) December 31, 2020