Dominican Republic receives 500,000 doses of vaccines from China
The Dominican Republic received a new batch of 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China.
The Sinovac vaccine shipment was transported on a TUI fly Belgium flight TB 9820, which made a stop in Brussels, Belgium.
They were received by Vice President Raquel Peña; the Minister of Health, Daniel Rivera; the president of the Senate, Eduardo Estrella; the Ambassador of China Zhang Run, and the administrator of Banreservas, Samuel Pereyra.
Peña specified that the vaccines target are people over 68 years old, as well as those who accompany the elderly 75 years and older who come to be inoculated.
The vaccines cost of 20 dollars per unit. Likewise, two million syringes donated by the Reserve Bank were also brought on the plane.
Vice President Peña added that “we have the rest of the vaccines waiting in China because we have to wait for the export permit and we are very confident that to the extent that the Chinese government can continue to approve these export permits, the Dominican people will be receiving a higher number of doses of Sinovac vaccines”.