Pfizer vaccines against covid-19 will arrive in Chile on Thursday

Who will be vaccinated in Chile in a first stage?

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The first 10,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine against covid-19 will arrive in Chile on Thursday on a plane from Belgium, the president of the southern country, Sebastián Piñera, reported on Wednesday.

"The plane will arrive in Chile around 7 in the morning," said the president at a press conference.

"This means that as of tomorrow Chile begins its vaccination process."

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Piñera explained that the process will be carried out gradually.

"Shipments of vaccines will be arriving periodically and systematically to our country.

In fact, we have managed to secure more than 10 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and also more than 10 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine ”.

The president added that “if we add to that the agreements and contracts we have with other laboratories, such as Astrazeneca-Oxford, and this is the case with Jensen and Johnson & Johnson, and the agreement we have with Covax, we are in a position to ensure that we will have more than 30 million doses of vaccines in our country.

The highest authority in Chile indicated that the first 10,000 doses of Pfizer will be for medical personnel who are working in units for critical patients with covid-19.

"Our intention is to vaccinate 100% of these medical personnel in the regions of La Araucanía, Biobío and Magallanes, and a third of the medical personnel in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago," he said.

And he clarified that the second shipment of vaccines from this laboratory will arrive next week.

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Piñera stressed that after vaccinating health personnel, we will proceed with the elderly, the chronically ill and the people deployed in the fight against covid-19.

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“Our intention is that the bulk of the critical group at greatest risk, approximately 5 million people, can be vaccinated during the first quarter of next year, and that the bulk of the target population of our country (about 15 million) can be vaccinated vaccinate during the first semester of next year, "said the president.

At the moment, the Chilean government has not provided an itinerary or further details of where or to whom the first inoculation will be performed in the southern country.

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