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Published on Friday,
November
26,
2021
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff Costa
Rica has imported 7,732,485 vaccines against
covid-19, according to the National Emergency
Commission. The most
recent shipment arrived last night on a DHL cargo at
the Juan Santamarķa International Airport,
containing 111,150 doses of Pfizer vaccines. The
country has already imported 5,442,905 Pfizer
vaccines, as part of the purchased 6,002,165
doses to inoculate more than 3 million people. The
country has already imported one million doses of
AstraZeneca vaccines purchased for the treatment of
more than 500,000 people. Also,
there have been 259,350 doses imported through
COVAX, which includes the approved vaccines Pfizer
and Moderna. These are part of the purchased
2,037,600 doses to provide treatment to more than
one million people. According
to the authorities, this month, the British-Swedish
company AstraZeneca donated 31,400 doses for the
inoculation of more than 15,000 people. In October,
Pfizer donated 130 doses of their vaccine. Also in
October, the shipment of 56,800 doses of the
AstraZeneca vaccines were donated by the
Dominican Republic. Earlier
that month, a donation of 50,000 doses of
AstraZeneca vaccines was donated by the
government of Austria.
In
September, Costa Rica received 69,600 doses of
AstraZeneca donated by the
government of Spain.
Also that month, a shipment of 319,200 AstraZeneca
doses were donated by
Canada. In
July, the U.S. donated
503,100 doses of Pfizer vaccines. There
are more than enough vaccines available to get Costa
Rica to the goal of herd immunity. The government
confirmed that herd immunity can be achieved when
83% of the population, more than 4.2 million people,
are fully vaccinated. So far, 62% of the population
(3.1 million people) have completed their
two-dose treatment. As
of Thursday, the country has 7,284 deaths listed as
covid-19 related, approximately a 1.3% death rate,
according to the Health Ministry report. The
pandemic has killed more than 5.2 million people
worldwide, according to data collected by Johns
Hopkins University.
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