09:22 | Lima, May. 7.
The first batch of 350,000 vaccine doses against COVID-19 from Pfizer pharmaceutical company has arrived in Peru, which was received by Labor and Employment Promotion Minister Javier Palacios.
The cargo landed at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport on Thursday evening (local time) on a KLM flight from the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
"The arrival of these doses gives us hope, because we need to make more rapid strides in this immunization process. This batch has gotten here thanks to the efforts made by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the efforts led by the President of the Republic Francisco Sagasti and Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez in order to reach a new agreement with Pfizer," he expressed.