{"id":121615,"date":"2021-05-06T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121615"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:15:26","slug":"peru-inks-deal-to-purchase-12-million-additional-doses-of-pfizer-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121615","title":{"rendered":"Peru inks deal to purchase 12 million additional doses of Pfizer vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LIMA, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peru President Francisco Sagasti announced a fresh deal with Pfizer Inc and BioNTech to purchase an additional 12 million doses of their vaccine against COVID-19 as a fierce second wave of the virus ravages the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president said on social media the additional shots would be delivered by year’s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peru’s vaccination drive has been slow to get started and fraught with allegations of corruption, with just under 4 per cent\u00a0of the population inoculated with at least one dose to date.
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Peru had previously signed a contract with Pfizer to purchase 20 million doses, some of which has begun to arrive in the Andean nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, GUATEMALA took delivery of its first consignment of Russian Sputnik V vaccines, with 50,000 doses arriving despite Guatemalan concerns Russia could cancel the deal after the confidential vaccine contract was leaked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guatemala’s government at the end of March acquired 16 million doses from Russia for US$79.6 million. A week later, half the amount was paid and Russia offered to ship 100,000 doses in the last week of April, but the vaccines were delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the weekend Guatemalan newspaper El Periodico published the contract online, prompting President Alejandro Giammattei on Tuesday to suggest in an interview that deal could be canceled due to a breach of confidentiality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Brolo, Guatemala’s Foreign Minister, at a press conference with a Russian diplomat, said the two sides were working to resolve their differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We deeply regret the leak,” Brolo said. “By publishing the contract you are risking the clauses of the same contract that could put the arrival of vaccines at risk,” said Brolo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larissa Plachinda, the most senior diplomat at the Russian embassy, said there would be additional conversations with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which is responsible for exports of the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are going to organize further negotiations with the Fund to see how we can fix this thing,” Plachinda said, calling the contract confidential. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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