These doses will be destined to front-line personnel, as announced by health authorities.
The Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, announced that the first 50,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine, from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and BioNTech, will arrive in the country in the last weeks of January 2021.
This batch of medicine will be used for front-line personnel, especially doctors, police, military and health personnel.
The Vice Minister of Governance and Health Surveillance, Xavier Solórzano, ratified this information and indicated that with the Pfizer laboratory and BioNTech, the Government has the most advanced agreements, for which 50,000 doses of the drug will be received in January.
National authorities assured that the vaccination process will last between six and nine months and 65% of the population will be covered. In addition, the authorities await the arrival of 18 million doses of the different patents, since “almost all work with boosters at 21 or 28 days, depending on the vaccine.”
“The investment planned by the Ecuadorian Government will cost 200 million dollars for the acquisition of enough vaccines to cover that 65% of the population, 18 million doses for 9 million people,” Solórzano announced.
In addition, he added that Ecuador is holding firm negotiations with three laboratories in addition to Pfizer: Covax, AstraZeneca and COVAXX. These doses would arrive in Ecuador as of March 2021 and with this mass vaccination would begin.
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