Health April 21, 2021 - 9:13 am

Plane with 500K vaccine doses coming from China: tweet

Santo Domingo.- Vice President Raquel Peña said Tuesday that a plane with 500,000 doses of vaccines took off from China to continue the vaccination process in the Dominican Republic.

“We announced that it just took off from China a plane with 500,000 doses of vaccines, which will arrive in our country tomorrow afternoon,” Peña tweeted.

That amount corresponds to the 50% that was expected to arrive almost a month ago. With the shipment of anticovid vaccine this Wednesday, there are more than 2.3 million doses that have reached the Dominican Republic.

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