Russia donates Sputnik V vaccine to Nicaragua – Society
MEXICO, November 2. / TASS /. Nicaragua received a gift from Russia of 100 thousand rubles. doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. About this government portal El 19 Digital with reference to the vice president of the Central American country.
“Rosario Murillo, Vice President of Nicaragua, thanked the Russian Federation for the donated batch of the vaccine” Sputnik V, which arrived in our country on Monday in the middle of the day, “the online publication writes. The first batch of this drug was donated to the republic this year.
To date, 220 thousand rubles have been supplied to Nicaragua. doses of the first and second components of Sputnik V, as well as 3.68 million doses of Sputnik Light. In addition to Russia, the country also uses Cuban Abdala and Soberana 02, a drug from the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and its Indian counterpart Covishield, as well as vaccines from the American company of the modern and American-German consortium consisting of Pfizer and BioNTech. According to the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, over 2.9 million citizens have already been immunized with at least one dose, which corresponds to 45.28% of the country’s population aged two years and older.
According to official data, since the beginning of the pandemic in the republic, where 6.5 million people live, 16,442 people have been infected with coronavirus, and 208 patients have died.