Correos del Ecuador (CDE EP) will be definitively liquidated and at the same time a part will become the new company Servicios Postales del Ecuador (SPE EP). The measure aims to guarantee the continuity of the Universal Postal Service (SPU) in the country under a new management.
President Lenín Moreno confirmed that the request from municipalities and private institutions to import the vaccine against covid-19 was accepted. However, to do so, they must approve the requirements established by the National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and Surveillance (Arcsa).
The President confirmed the news during his speech on the radio program ‘De Frente con el Presidente’, broadcast this Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Moreno assured that the Government will be attentive to compliance with the guidelines for the importation of the vaccine.
Government will allow the importation of vaccines for municipalities and private institutions
“I have given the disposition to the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, to organize in the next few days, the possibility that vaccines are imported directly by the municipalities,” he said. However, the President revealed that he has doubts about this procedure.
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QUITO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Ecuador has approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, the health ministry said on Sunday.
AstraZeneca’s vaccine is the second that the National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and Surveillance has registered for use. A pilot program that provides the Pfizer Inc vaccine to medical personnel and in nursing homes began last week when the first doses arrived.
“The agency authorized imports of approximately five million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which will be applied to 2.5 million Ecuadoreans,” the ministry added in a statement. “It will allow Ecuador to strengthen the process of containing the disease to achieve herd immunity.”