LIMA, Peru Public indignation over secret coronavirus vaccinations for the wealthy and well-connected in Peru grew Wednesday, a day after the Vatican’s ambassador to the South American nation admitted he was inoculated ahead of health care workers and the poor. The surreptitious vaccination of nearly 500 people, including a then-president, his wife and brother, […]
Indignation over secret Covid-19 vaccinations for wealthy in Peru grow, a day after the Vatican’s ambassador admitted he was inoculated ahead of health workers and the poor.
Fury in Peru after officials secretly received vaccine before health workers
Simeon Tegel, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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LIMA, Peru - When interim president Francisco Sagasti finally unveiled Peru s first coronavirus vaccine deal last month, Peruvians wearied by nearly a year of twin health and economic crises compounded by the country s recent political turmoil glimpsed a light at the end of the tunnel.
As ICU doctors and nurses this month began receiving their shots from the first batch - 300,000 doses from the Chinese company Sinopharm - cautious optimism began to spread. Sagasti said he hoped to have a third of Peru s 32 million people vaccinated by the time he steps down on July 28.
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Amid scandal, Peru says 487 officials vaccinated secretly
by Franklin BriceñO, The Associated Press
Posted Feb 15, 2021 11:27 pm EDT
Last Updated Feb 15, 2021 at 11:28 pm EDT
LIMA, Peru Peru’s president announced Monday night that 487 officials, including the former ministers of foreign affairs and health, took advantage of their privileged positions to secretly receive early inoculations of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine that the government then bought for doctors and other health workers battling the pandemic.
Interim President Francisco Sagasti said the officials’ names are being turned over to prosecutors as the intensifying scandal over unequal access to coronavirus vaccines rattles Peru’s government.