[News] The President announces that this Thursday at 7:00 am the first doses of Pfizer will arrive and that the vaccination process will begin

[FNX Magokiler]

Today the first 10,000 doses of the product left Belgium, while next week more are expected to arrive.

President Sebastián Piñera announced that tomorrow, Thursday at 7:00 a.m., the first 10,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will arrive in Chile, which will begin the vaccination process in the country against covid-19.

"This morning at 5:00 in the morning, the plane that brings the first 10,000 doses of the vaccine from the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratory took off from Belgium. The plane will arrive in Chile around 7:00 in the morning and we are ready and prepared to start a vaccination process, "he reported. In this context, the President emphasized that "as of tomorrow Chile begins its vaccination process, we are going to do it gradually, just as the shipments of vaccines will be arriving periodically and systematically in our country." Recalling the various contracts signed to purchase vaccines, Piñera

recalled that "we are going to have more than 30 million doses of vaccine in our country." 

 

 

Likewise, he explained that the first 10,000 doses that arrive tomorrow will be to vaccinate the medical personnel of Intensive Treatment Units with critical patients, in the regions of La Araucanía, Bío Bío, Magallanes and a third of those personnel in the Metropolitan Region. Then it will be the turn of the rest of the health personnel, the elderly and the chronically ill, among other risk groups, to finally reach the rest of the po[CENSORED]tion. The President recalled that due to the characteristics of the vaccine, it requires a cold chain to maintain itself, of which they have taken care to have super freezers and also to ensure that during its transfer. Vaccine is voluntary and free "The vaccine is an act of solidarity, it is not a personal decision. When a person is vaccinated he is protecting his health, his life, but he is also protecting the health and life of everyone around him," he said. . However, he said that "the vaccine will be voluntary and free, therefore, the State will provide vaccines to all people to avoid confusion or deception." Regarding the new strain of the coronavirus found in the United Kingdom, Piñera said that "we are constantly studying the evolution and mutation of the virus in our country and so far we have not detected this new variant (...) but we have to prepare for all eventualities. " Finally, the President called for the self-care of the po[CENSORED]tion: "That we take care of ourselves, our families, our loved ones, that we take care of our community, that we avoid the crowds that we have seen in recent days, that we keep our distances physical, hand washing and the use of masks. And additionally that we strictly comply with the rules issued by the Ministry of Health. " "We are close to the beginning of summer and we want a good summer for Chile," he concluded.