Tag: Covax
AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in Costa Rica on hold pending analysis by EMA
QCOSTARICA - At 7 am this Wednesday, the first 43,200 vaccines against covid-19, developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, arrived in Costa Rica by way of the Juan Santamaria International (San Jose) airport.
The doses, however, will not be used immediately, as the...
More than 159 thousand vaccines against Covid-19 arrive this week
QCOSTARICA - More than 159 thousand vaccines against Covid-19 will arrive in Costa Rica this week, with the announcement that 115,380 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech arrive tonight, Monday, April 5, one day ahead of the Tuesday deliveries that have been the norm in the last...
Country by Country Guide to Covid Vaccines in Central America
QCOSTARICA - Covid vaccination in Central America is well underway. Here’s an updated country guide to how they’re doing, as of March 18, 2021.
The topic of vaccines is controversial, stirring up strong feelings on both sides of the debate. Just look at the Q's...
Covid Hit Colombia Hard. Now It Face Big Vaccine Bills
(Bloomberg) — Colombia has already paid a steep price in the pandemic with more than 61,000 deaths from Covid-19. Now the country faces another cost: about US$850 million to immunize its population.
A healthcare workerr prepares a dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine at the...
Costa Rica signs with Pfizer purchase of 1 million additional vaccines
QCOSTARICA - The government of Carlos Alvarado announced this Monday morning that Costa Rica signed an addendum to ensure the supply of one million additional doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, with the aim of accelerating the pace of the immunization process to...
People between 18 and 58 with a risk factor would be vaccinated starting June
QCOSTARICA - If the arrival of vaccines to Costa Rica against Covid-19 continue to without delays, by June the vaccination of Group 3, which includes people between 18 and 58 years old with risk factors, would begin.
Currently, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)...
More than 193,000 vaccines have already been applied
QCOSTARICA - From the start of the vaccination program against covid-19 on December 24, 2020, 193,273 doses have already been applied countrywide.
Of this total, 142,049 are the first applications and 51,224 to the second. So far, all the vaccines received are those produced by...
Nicaragua begins vaccination against covid-19 in people with chronic diseases
TODAY NICARAGUA – Nicaragua, on Tuesday, March 2, began to apply the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19 to people with chronic diseases, in the first phase of immunization that will later be extended to other segments.
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“At this stage, we are vaccinating...
CNE: “If confidentiality in contract with Pfizer is broken, vaccine supply is suspended”
QCOSTARICA - The contract signed by the Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias (CNE) - National Commission for Risk Prevention and Emergency Commission - for the acquisition of three million doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines against the new coronavirus...
Costa Rica reserves $84 million for purchase of covid-19 vaccines
QCOSTARICA - The Government of Costa Rica plans to invest US$84 million in the purchase of vaccines against covid-19 being developed by various pharmaceutical companies.
“There is an estimate that the doses will cost US$11. So the total cost, which we estimate at the Treasury,...
Costa Rica signs with AstraZeneca to supply candidate vaccine against COVID-19
QCOSTARICA - The Ministry of Health and the National Emergency Commission (CNE) reported that Costa Rica signed with AstraZeneca to supply one million doses of its candidate vaccine against COVID-19, AZD1222, developed together with the University of Oxford. Said million doses will cover half...
COVAX: Working for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines
The vaccines pillar of the ACT-Accelerator, convened by CEPI GAVI and WHO, is speeding up the search for an effective vaccine for all countries. At the same time, it is supporting the building of manufacturing capabilities, and buying supply, ahead of time so that 2 billion...
