The first batch Pfizer-BioNTech will not be applied at 21 days for all, due to lack of medication, although some experts indicate that you can wait up to 42 days.
The Government announced that the second shipment from Pfizer-BioNTech with 16.300 vaccines to combat Covid-19 will arrive in the country next week. With these doses it is expected to culminate with the vaccination of people who were part of the zero phase or pilot plan.
As indicated by the Ministry of Health, with the first shipment of vaccines the booster would be applied to 1.962 people throughout the country, since specialists concluded that, with the Pfizer-BioNTech drug, a second dose should be applied at 21 days , but more than 4.200 Ecuadorians will not receive this vaccine because they have not yet arrived in the country.
6.228 Ecuadorians who received the first dose as of January 20 that the first batch of vaccines arrived in Ecuador, but not all will receive the second dose at 21 days as recommended, although several specialists consider that it can wait up to 42 days for complete the immunization process.
The delivery of the first doses was the cause of much criticism in the country, because several people who are not part of the first line of combat against the pandemic were vaccinated.
In addition, the Minister of Health was questioned for delivering several vaccines to a private gerontological center, where he acknowledged that he had several relatives, and for that reason he faces a criminal complaint and two impeachment proceedings.
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