The Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo reported yesterday (Friday 29th October 2021) that according to the Nicaragua Vaccination Program Update from The Ministry of Health (MINSA), 2,582,167 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
“This amounts to 40.3 percent of the population aged two years and over” – MINSA.
During her Canal 4 de Televisión broadcast, Murillo said that “during this week, 1,098,245 people have been voluntarily vaccinated with vaccines that include, Abdala, Soberana, Sputnik Light, Sputnik V, Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
The Vice President gave the percentage figures of the vaccination rates as; 52% of pregnant women, postpartum and lactating mothers, 19.5% of children from 2 to 11 years old, 22.5% of children aged 12 to 17 and 23.4 percent of young people from 18 to 29 years.
In addition, 60.5% of those older than 30 years have also been vaccinated.
Also in the Nicaragua Vaccination Program Update, it was announced that the voluntary vaccination program continues next week and includes second doses of Covishield, AstraZeneca and Sputnik V which will be applied to people who have received the first dose for more than four weeks.
In a Nica-Biz article on July 3rd 2021 entitled “Covid-19 Vaccination Program Continues” we reported that the Ministry of Health for Nicaragua (MINSA) had previously announced that the Voluntary Covid-19 Vaccination Program in Nicaragua needs to vaccinate from between 60 to 70% of what was then the target population aged 12 years or over.
This is a number recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the desired number of adults that a country needs to vaccinate in order to break the chain of transmission.
However, with the recent delivery of the Abdala and Soberana 02 vaccines from Cuba, the government was able to bring forward the phase where children between 2 and 11 could also be vaccinated.
The vaccines for the voluntary program have come from as far and wide as India, Russia, Spain, Norway, Panama, Cuba and recently the United States of America.
Vaccines have also been donated through the Covax initiative aimed at accelerating the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines and guaranteeing fair and equitable access for every country in the world.
