This Monday, April 5, will conclude with the application of the first dose to teachers of the public education sector and will begin with teachers of the private system. However, the government has classified all information about vaccines, including acquisitions, as confidential.
The COVID-19 vaccination process for the elderly and people with chronic diseases will begin on Wednesday, April 7, President Nayib Bukele reported this Sunday evening.
“On Wednesday we started with people with chronic degenerative diseases and with our older adults,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
In addition, he announced that on Monday, April 12, “the Mega Vaccination Center will be inaugurated, with a capacity to serve 10,000 people per day. That brings us to a speed of 30,000 people per day ”.
However, Bukele has not clarified why they will not be used for this purpose. the vaccination modules in which the government cost a millionaire months ago. In the words of the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, in the month of January, the health strategy, the cost of which he himself set at $ 5 million and for which he has been criticized by the same group of doctors and nurses, only implies the placement of a cube ”He claimed.
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Regarding the vaccination of teachers in the public education sector, the president said the trial will be concluded next Monday and the application of the first dose against COVID-19 for private sector teachers will begin immediately.
He added that they plan to vaccinate college teachers on Thursday, with whom they would complete the trial next Sunday, April 11.
However, this information about how the vaccination process goes cannot be verified because the The government has classified all information about vaccines as reserved, including acquisitions.
Receiving the fourth batch of vaccines on March 28, the Health Minister said that with those doses it was expected that “our 50,000 teachers would cover before we returned to classes on April 6.”
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Now Bukele also confirmed that the country will receive a donation of 150,000 doses against COVID-19 from China, arriving Tuesday evening.
According to the president, the vaccines are “in addition to the 2 million our government has acquired from SINOVAC”.
However, the Salvadoran government has not made public the cost of the vaccines it purchased.
According to a document from the Minsal Reserved Information Index, updated March 11 on the transparency site.
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