The Vice Minister of Health of Panama, Ivette Berrío confirmed that the third batch of the vaccine against covid-19 from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer will arrive in the country next week, although she did not specify a date.
In this third installment, 77,200 doses of the
vaccine from the American company will arrive.
The negotiating team is in constant talks with
vaccine developers so that our country obtains the number of doses of
covid vaccines and we can offer the population the number of doses necessary, Berrío said at a conference.
Berrío indicated that to date the regularization of deliveries has been achieved by
Pfizer.
Panama received this February 17 the second batch of
Pfizer vaccines with 67,860 doses.
On a weekly basis, the company will be sending batches of the
vaccine to the country until completing the 450 thousand doses that were confirmed for the first quarter of this year.