{"id":119226,"date":"2021-04-18T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119226"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:15:32","slug":"covid-19-bolivia-officially-requests-to-buy-cubas-soberana-02-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119226","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Bolivia officially requests to buy Cuba&#8217;s Soberana 02 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Bolivia-Officially-Requests-To-Buy-Cubas-Soberana-02-Vaccine-20210416-0011.html#\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/__export\/1618605304366\/sites\/telesur\/img\/2021\/04\/16\/soberana02-foto-cubasi-580x330.jpeg_1718483346.jpeg\" alt=\"Bolivia's vaccination strategy, which began in early February, is progressing favorably, with 507,411 people injected as of last Thursday.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade and Integration of Bolivia, Benjam\u00edn Blanco, made official the Government&#8217;s intention to buy the anti-COVID-19 Soberana 02 vaccine candidate\u00a0from Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanco, accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Health Insurance, Alejandra Hidalgo, met with the Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires of the Cuban embassy, Danilo S\u00e1nchez, to finalize actions aimed at acquiring the drug in phase III of clinical studies, Bolivia reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are in constant conversations, and we are going to have a high-level meeting to know a little more closely what is happening. They have already started the vaccination, and I hope that in May, they will have a significant number of people immunized, which will make it possible to contribute to the studies,&#8221; Blanco said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They would be ready in June or July, and once they are prepared for export, we could make the acquisition depending on the results of this last period, Blanco remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his statements, he also said&nbsp;that the State would support the acquisition of vaccines made in Latin America and even more from a brother country such as Cuba.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, Bolivia has approached pharmaceutical companies that have drugs against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. He said that they are close to an agreement with China for the provision in May of Sinovac. They are also working with India to acquire Covaxin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolivia&#8217;s vaccination strategy, initiated in early February, is progressing favorably, and 507,411 people were injected up to Thursday, between the first and second doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V and the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Andean nation received a couple of days ago another 25,000 doses from Russia, while the objective is to immunize 100% of the vaccine-eligible population (7.7 of the 11.5 million inhabitants) by September. &#8212; NNN-TELESUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade and Integration of Bolivia, Benjam\u00edn Blanco, made official the Government&#8217;s intention to buy the anti-COVID-19 Soberana 02 vaccine candidate\u00a0from Cuba. Blanco, accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Health Insurance, Alejandra Hidalgo, met with the Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires of the Cuban embassy, Danilo S\u00e1nchez, to finalize actions aimed at acquiring the drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}