According to an image uploaded by the Presidential House, some vaccines did not enter El Salvador on February 17, as indicated by the government, but since February 3 last year
A photo uploaded to Twitter by the Government Communications Secretariat contained a detail that, according to versions circulating on social networks, indicates that some vaccines against COVID-19 entered El Salvador on February 3, and not February 17 last February, as the government has officially announced.
If so, the government would retain some of these vaccines for 14 days, despite the urgency to start immunizing health personnel fighting the disease.
According to airline tracking, vaccines arrived in El Salvador on Feb. 3
The journalist Cecibel Romero, who works with Salud con Lupa, found that one of the boxes that was delivered Wednesday evening at a health post in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión, contained a white sticker, which provided different information than indicated by the Bukele. administration.
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This vignette, numbered 406-0229 9253, as shown in the image, comes from a shipment from the company UPS, which arrived from Miami to El Salvador on February 3 at 10:17 am. For example, it is registered in the digital system of the said shipping company.
Instead, the government’s official treatise is that all 20,000 doses received on Feb. 17 were from a flight from Mumbai, India, from the Spanish company Iberia.
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The finding sparked a string of negative comments against the government’s work on social media, which in turn prompted a quick response from President Nayib Bukele, who uploaded a tweet underscoring his earlier speech.
While official government networks keep footage of vaccinations for frontline workers, the general population is not aware of the Bukele government’s plan for the rest of the citizens interested in immunization; It is also not known in detail where the 162 vaccination posts announced by the Ministry of Health are located or what the exact costs are.