COVID Vaccination – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:50:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png COVID Vaccination – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 En vigencia el sistema Biocheck para ingresar a Venezuela https://onvenezuela.com/en-vigencia-el-sistema-biocheck-para-ingresar-a-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en-vigencia-el-sistema-biocheck-para-ingresar-a-venezuela Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:49:59 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=15470

El nuevo sistema Biocheck para pasajeros que ingresan a Venezuela ya está oficialmente activo, el abogado aeronáutico, Rodolfo Ruíz explicó los detalles. -Se trata de un sistema automatizado de validación de vacunación, entró en vigencia a partir del día 01 de agosto. -Todos los pasajeros que entren por vía aérea al país deben presentar el pase de viajero que emite el sistema luego de ingresar sus datos -Las personas que por cualquier motivo no puedan vacunarse deben presentar una PCR negativa de no más de 72 horas, pero esa PCR debe validarse en el sistema de Biocheck para que el sistema emita el pase. Texto Completo -> ElDiariodeGuayana

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Venezuelan authorities launch vaccination of children over 2 against COVID, President says https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelan-authorities-launch-vaccination-of-children-over-2-against-covid-president-says/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelan-authorities-launch-vaccination-of-children-over-2-against-covid-president-says Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:04:22 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=12106

On Monday, Venezuelan authorities begin vaccination of children over two years of age against coronavirus. Overall, 70% of residents had already been inoculated, the country’s president Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday. Full Text -> TASS

Traducción de cortesía -> El lunes, las autoridades venezolanas inician la vacunación de niños mayores de dos años contra el coronavirus. En general, el 70% de los residentes ya habían sido vacunados, dijo el domingo el presidente del país, Nicolás Maduro.

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Cuba envió más de un millón de dosis antiCovid-19 a Venezuela https://onvenezuela.com/cuba-envio-mas-de-un-millon-de-dosis-anticovid-19-a-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cuba-envio-mas-de-un-millon-de-dosis-anticovid-19-a-venezuela Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:45:33 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=12102

“Más de 1,640,000 dosis de la vacuna Abdala se enviaron desde Cuba a nuestros hermanos de Venezuela, en vuelo de CONVIASA, que despegó de La Habana en la madrugada de hoy”, precisa un mensaje del CIGB en la red social Twitter. El primer lote de Abdala, que se convirtió en el primer inmunógeno anti-Covid-19 desarrollado y producido en América Latina y el Caribe, llegó a Venezuela el pasado mes de junio. Texto Completo-> PrensaLatina

Courtesy translation-> “More than 1,640,000 doses of the Abdala vaccine were sent from Cuba to our brothers in Venezuela, on a CONVIASA flight, which took off early today from Havana,” says a message from the CIGB on the social network Twitter. The first batch of Abdala, which became the first anti-Covid-19 immunogen developed and produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, arrived in Venezuela last June.

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Venezuela recibe nuevo cargamento de primera dosis de vacuna Sputnik V desde Rusia https://onvenezuela.com/venezuela-recibe-nuevo-cargamento-de-primera-dosis-de-vacuna-sputnik-v-desde-rusia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-recibe-nuevo-cargamento-de-primera-dosis-de-vacuna-sputnik-v-desde-rusia Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:09:03 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=11422

Venezuela recibió un nuevo cargamento de la primera dosis de la vacuna Sputnik V desde Rusia, con la cual el Gobierno espera llegar a la meta del 70% de la población vacunada para finales de octubre, informó la viceministra de Redes de Salud de este país sudamericano, Marisela Bermúdez. Texto completo-> Sputnik

Curtesy translation-> Venezuela received a new shipment of the first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, with which the Government hopes to reach the goal of 70% of the vaccinated population by the end of October, reported the Vice Minister of Networks of Health of this South American country, Marisela Bermúdez

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Venezuelan academy of medicine expresses concern over use of Cuban vaccine https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelan-academy-of-medicine-expresses-concern-over-use-of-cuban-vaccine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelan-academy-of-medicine-expresses-concern-over-use-of-cuban-vaccine Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:05:39 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=11156

Venezuela’s National Academy of Medicine on Monday expressed concern over the use of Cuba’s Abdala coronavirus vaccine due to a lack of scientific research on its safety and efficacy.Cuba said on Saturday it had exported the three-shot vaccine for the first time, sending an initial shipment to Vietnam as part of a contract to supply five million doses to the Southeast Asian country.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/world/venezuelan-academy-medicine-expresses-concern-over-use-cuban-vaccine By Vivian Sequera. Full Text -> Today

Traducción de cortesía -> La Academia Nacional de Medicina de Venezuela expresó el lunes su preocupación por el uso de la vacuna cubana contra el coronavirus Abdala debido a la falta de investigación científica sobre su seguridad y eficacia. Cuba dijo el sábado que había exportado la vacuna de tres inyecciones por primera vez, enviando un envío inicial a Vietnam como parte de un contrato para suministrar cinco millones de dosis al país del sudeste asiático.

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Venezuela Is Without a Vaccination Plan https://onvenezuela.com/venezuela-is-without-a-vaccination-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-is-without-a-vaccination-plan Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:27:32 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=10557

Vaccinating Venezuela’s 28.5 million people against the coronavirus was always going to be a challenge given low levels of trust and the hollowed-out nature of the country’s public institutions. Bringing visibility to Venezuela’s vaccination debacle has been a pitched battle between the country’s democratically elected political opposition, which demands a credible and efficacious vaccination campaign, and the ruling regime, which has suppressed and obfuscated information on the pandemic. By Ryan C. Berg. Full Text -> ForeignPolicy

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PAHO: Venezuela to receive Chinese COVID-19 vaccines “in the coming weeks.” https://onvenezuela.com/paho-venezuela-to-receive-chinese-covid-19-vaccines-in-the-coming-weeks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paho-venezuela-to-receive-chinese-covid-19-vaccines-in-the-coming-weeks Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:14:45 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=10548

Ciro Ugarte, director of health emergencies of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), during a virtual press conference, last Wednesday, informed that Venezuela will receive the Sinovac and Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines through the United Nations COVAX program. “‘The vaccines would arrive between July and September, both for Sinovac and Sinopharm,” he add. By OnVenezuela

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Venezuelan nurses and teachers ask not to apply Cuban vaccine to minors https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelan-nurses-and-teachers-ask-not-to-apply-cuban-vaccine-to-minors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelan-nurses-and-teachers-ask-not-to-apply-cuban-vaccine-to-minors Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:30:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=10327

The Caracas College of Nurses and several teachers claimed this Friday that the Cuban vaccine Abdala not be applied to minors in Venezuela, which they consider to be still a “prototype” despite having received their authorization for emergency use by the island authorities. “Children are special subjects of law and, today, in Venezuela, we cannot continue to allow our Venezuelans to become guinea pigs,” said the president of the College of Nurses in Caracas, Ana Rosario Contreras, who led a small protest in front of to the headquarters of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Full Text -> MarketResearchTelecast.

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Venezuela payment to COVAX received after funds blocked – Gavi https://onvenezuela.com/venezuela-payment-to-covax-received-after-funds-blocked-gavi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-payment-to-covax-received-after-funds-blocked-gavi Fri, 09 Jul 2021 11:54:37 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=10160

Venezuela has paid its financial commitments to the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility and will be allocated COVID-19 vaccine doses upon availability, a spokesperson for the Gavi vaccine alliance which helps run the programme said on Thursday. President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday he was giving COVAX an “ultimatum” to send doses to the crisis-stricken South American country or return the money Venezuela had already paid. By Stephanie Nebehay, Luc Cohen. Full Text -> Reuteres

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Cuba’s New Covid-19 Vaccine Finds Testing Ground in Venezuela https://onvenezuela.com/cubas-new-covid-19-vaccine-finds-testing-ground-in-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cubas-new-covid-19-vaccine-finds-testing-ground-in-venezuela Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:50:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=10137

Cuba says it has developed a vaccine against Covid-19 that its ally, Venezuela, has begun administering despite warnings from regional health authorities and Venezuelan doctors that they haven’t seen evidence of the shot’s efficacy or safety. Cuban doctors working in Venezuela are applying the three-dose vaccine called Abdala, with 10,000 people having received the first jab in recent days at a Caracas military base, the first batch from a 12-million-dose contract signed between the two nations. By Kejal Vyas. Full Text-> WallStreetJournal

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