Vaccines: 958 thousand doses of Sinovac arrived in Colombia – Government – Politics


This Saturday, around 2:45 PM, on a flight operated by the airline KLM, with the Beijing-Amsterdam-Bogotá route, they arrived 958,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine

This is one of two flights from Beijing, China, expected to bolster the national vaccination plan this weekend, which aims to immunize more than 70 percent of Colombians against Covid-19.

Disembarkation took place on the passenger platform and will then, as required by the nationalization procedure, take place in the warehouse of the transport company DHL.

Chinese vaccine doses They will be transferred to the warehouse of the Ministry of Health in the Free Zone, in Bogotá, where the process of entering the freezers will begin.

Thus, 1,505,880 doses of this batch will be completed.

The second flight is expected this Sunday around 9 a.m. In this 547,880 more doses will come in, on a flight operated by an Air France company connecting to the Beijing-Paris-Bogotá route.

These doses are part of Colombia’s commercial agreement to acquire 2.5 million doses with which it hopes to immunize 1.25 million Colombians.

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