Authorities reported that the doses will be distributed for the immunization of children from 5 to 11 years old. | Photo: Foreign Ministry of Bolivia

La Paz, February 17 (RHC)-- The Bolivian government reported Wednesday that the country has more than 1,300,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, received at the facilities of the National Institute of Health Laboratories (Inlasa), and acquired through the Covax mechanism.

"The Bolivian Foreign Ministry informs that today were received, in Inlasa Bolivia facilities, 1,310,400 doses of Pfizer vaccines.  This through the Covax mechanism, donation from the United States," said the Ministry, while noting that they will be immediately distributed to the nine departments for the immunization of children aged 5 to 11 years.

Since January 29, 2021, a total of 23,815,500 doses of vaccines against the Sars Cov-2 virus arrived in the country, in a context where according to the Ministry of Health and Sports, 12,311,839 doses of Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Janssen drugs had been supplied in Bolivia, between the first, second, third, and unidosis.

On Saturday, February 12, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Benjamín Blanco, told the local media that as from Wednesday, more than two million vaccines against the coronavirus will arrive in the country.

"We have a large number of doses available, there are more than 10 million doses and we have the arrival of about two million still arriving in the country, that is to say that we have enough, so now we have to concentrate on the second and booster doses," said the Deputy Minister of Health System Management, Alvaro Terrazas.

The last report published by the Ministry of Health on COVID-19, which corresponds to February 15th, indicated that 17 people died during the day and the case fatality rate so far reaches 0.6 percent. Positive cases of the disease reached 1,104 positive tests.