After Russia's announcement about the registration of the first vaccine against COVID-19, the Minister of Health of Panama, Luis Francisco Sucre, indicated in the country a group of experts is evaluating all the vaccine options, and the that prove to be safer and more effective.
The National Government has been implementing different strategies so that Panama is among the countries in the first row to be able to receive the
vaccines, said the head of the Health portfolio.
He explained that Panama has two teams: one, which is a thematic table that is in charge of doing research on issues related to
COVID-19 and the advances of
vaccines in different countries; and the other is a group of researchers called the
Vaccine Research Consortium, which is dedicated to the operational part of the different
vaccines.
Both teams are seeking approaches with all the
vaccines they consider, he said.