Government does not rule out the arrival of the Russian sputnik vaccine against COVID-19, but would analyze the acquisition of the Novavax vaccine.
Inside of the vaccination schedule against the coronavirus in Ecuador the vaccines of Pfizer, Sinovac, CanSino, and AstraZeneca.
The Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, mentioned that in about a week a new shipment of 3 million Sinovac vaccines that will help inoculate children between 3 and 4 years of age and to apply the second doses of children from 5 to 11 years.
On February 15, vaccination against COVID-19 begins for children 3 and 4 years old; further lowering the age range is being analyzed
Immunization of children between 3 and 4 years of age will begin next february 15. In Ecuador it is currently vaccinated from the age of 5.
Garzon added that the Government was in contact with the Russian Fund to matter if there was the Sputnik vaccine opportunity, but he said that in Russia there was some inconvenience and they only produced sputnik light, whose duration is six months.
The official mentioned that has not been ruled out their arrival, although the facility to do so has not been given.
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“Yes, we have made contact so that seeing how the epidemiological situation is going, starting in the second half of this year, perhaps we can import vaccine (US) Novavaxespecially for booster doses,” he said in a radio interview sonorama.
In the country, first and second doses are applied and it is also placed the reinforcement.
Source: Eluniverso
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