Tegucigalpa (AFP)
The Honduran Health Secretariat's "brigades" in charge of immunization went on the border to El Triunfo and La Fraternidad, some 100 km south of Tegucigalpa, "to immunize the Nicaraguan population which is intensively seeking to receive a first dose "of the vaccine against the Covid-19, indicated a press release of these" brigades ".
"About 4,000 doses are available every day for foreigners who come to be vaccinated" from these "brigades".
These will remain on the border until November 6, they said, adding that a second dose would be available "within 28 days".
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández announced last week a loan of 100,000 doses of vaccine to Nicaragua in a gesture of "solidarity".
Nicaragua is one of six countries in the Americas with the lowest vaccination rate, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
This country, with 6.5 million inhabitants, has officially recorded 16,422 cases of contamination and 206 deaths from Covid-19, but according to a network of independent doctors, the number of cases of contamination reached 30,809 for 5,832 deaths.
Nicaraguan woman registers her name to be vaccinated against Covid-19, October 22, 2021 in Guasaule, Honduras YESSENIA HERCULANO AFP
Honduras, with nearly ten million inhabitants, has already vaccinated nearly 40% of its population.
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