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| Published Wednesday, May 12, 2021
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Costa Rica has imported 1,505,895 vaccines against covid-19. The most recent shipment arrived Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. at the Juan Santamaría International Airport with 124,020 doses of Pfizer vaccines.
Vaccines cargo video published by the National Emergency Commission can be reached at AM Costa Rica YouTube channel.
The country purchased 6,000,425 million doses of Pfizer for the treatment of more than 3 million people.
In April the first cargo of 43,200 AstraZeneca inoculations arrived. The next cargo with more than 8,000 doses is expected to arrive this week. The country purchased 1,092,000 doses last year.
The government also purchased 2,037,600 doses of vaccines through the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX system) of the World Health Organization. This acquisition includes WHO-approved vaccines, such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna. The shipments of these doses aren't scheduled yet.
According to the Commission statistics, the country bought a total of 9,130,025 doses to ensure treatment for more than 4.5 million people.
As of Tuesday, 1,093,931 vaccines against covid-19 have been applied, reaching a national vaccination rate of 21.19 per 100 inhabitants, according to the statistics of the Vaccine National Information System.
Of these 657, 301 people have received their first dose and 436,630 people have completed their treatment upon receiving the second dose.
The vaccination campaign against covid -19 continues with the Group-A of High Risk, which includes elderly folks living in nursing homes, nursing home employees, healthcare workers, members of the police force, firefighters and Emergency Commission workers, among others.
The campaign is also inoculating Group-B of High-Risk, which includes people over the age of 58, regardless of whether or not they have any pre-existing health risk factors.
And the Group-C of High-Risk including people between the ages of 18 and 58 with certain health risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, chronic respiratory disease, chronic kidney disease, obesity and cancer. Those not getting the vaccine are pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding.
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