First batch of vaccines against COVID-19 to arrive in El Salvador
EL SALVADOR- The president from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele announced that the Centro American country will receive the first batch of vaccines against the coronavirus this Wednesday. These vaccines were developed by AstraZeneca, (a British–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company) and the University of Oxford.
Through his Twitter account, the Salvadoran president explained that the vaccines will arrive from India. In addition, he stated that their health staff will be vaccinated as soon as the vaccines land in the country.
Mañana en la mañana, un avión de @Iberia trae el primer lote de vacunas contra #COVID19 de @AstraZeneca, desde la India.
Mañana mismo inicia la vacunación con nuestro personal de primera línea.
Esto tomará algunos días, vacunando miles de trabajadores de salud diarios.
Sigue
— 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) February 17, 2021
— 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) February 17, 2021
On the other hand, Bukele pointed out that this first batch does not belong to the vaccines that the country will receive under the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).
“These are not the vaccines that we will receive from the Covax program. Those will come in the first week of March. These are the ones that the government acquired,” Bukele said.
Estas no son las vacunas que recibiremos del programa #COVAX.
Esas vendrán en la primera semana de marzo.
Estas son de las que adquirió el Gobierno.
Mañana el Ministro de @SaludSV @FranAlabi dará una conferencia de prensa, en el aeropuerto de El Salvador, a las 10am.
— 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) February 17, 2021
Likewise, he had words of gratitude to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, “for his indispensable support, so that vaccines come faster to our country.”
Un agradecimiento especial al Primer Ministro de la India, @narendramodi, por su apoyo indispensable, para que las vacunas vinieran más rápido a nuestro país.
— 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) February 17, 2021
Until this Wednesday, the Central American country reported 58,023 confirmed cases of coronavirus. This figure has left a balance of 1,750 deaths since the start of the pandemic in El Salvador.
