At around 9:30 p.m. this Thursday, he landed at Carrasco International Airport A plane with 500,000 doses of Pfizer Vaccine Donated to Uruguay by the government United State.
“I am delighted that the 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines donated by my country to Uruguay have arrived, and knowing that they provide flexibility and options for the already excellent vaccination plan being put in place by the government of President Luis Lacalle Poe and his team,” wrote the person in charge of the US Embassy division, Jennifer Savageon his Twitter account.
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– Jennifer Savage (@USAmbUruguay) July 9, 2021
For his part, the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinas, said via his Twitter account: “Thank you to the United States of America, in particular the administration of the Chargé d’Affairs to the Chargé d’Affairs, USAmbUruguay Jeniffer Savage, for donating 500,000 doses. The Pfizer Covid vaccine. At this moment arrives in Uruguay.”
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– Daniel Salinas (@DrDanielSalinas) July 9, 2021
In total, there will be 80 million vaccines that will be donated to different countries, as the US President announced, Joe Biden. The White House spokeswoman stressed in a press conference weeks ago that 25 of them would be delivered at the beginning of June, and the remaining 55 million would be distributed “as soon as possible.” Jin Psakiwithout providing a specific calendar.
The arrival of these vaccines to Uruguay was announced on Monday by the Secretary of the Presidency Alvaro Delgado Through your Twitter account. “This will enhance the sequence of doses that our country is getting and will speed up vaccination,” he wrote.
“For us, this has special value, and it is nothing more than strengthening the bond that we have with the United States. These gestures in the pandemic reinforce a mechanism of vaccination that is coming in so fast and so advanced,” the president said at a press conference. last week.
The given vaccines are among those approved for internal use in the United States—those found in modernAnd the Pfizer s Johnson & Johnson— and added to the 60 million doses already donated by Washington in May AstraZeneca.