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Costa Rica To Receive Only 900.000 Doses Of
The AH1N1 Vaccine, 1 Million Short
Although the country needs 1.8 million doses
of the AH1N1 vaccine, the ministra de Salud,
María Luisa Ávila, said Costa Rica will be
receiving only 900.000 doses.
Ávila said that she was informed by the
Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS),
which is making purchases of the vaccine en
masse for Latin countries, that Costa Rica's
allotment will be short a million doses.
The ministra said that in the Americas,
excluding the US and Canada, there will be a
first shipment of 35 million doses, 15
million of which will be distributed in
December and the rest in February 2010.
The reduction also affects the arrival of
the vaccine in Costa Rica. Ávila said that
Costa Rica was to have received its first
shipment in December, but now cannot say
exactly when.
The change will also mean a change in
priority for those to receive the vaccine.
In Costa Rica a total of 1.596 cases of
AH1N1 have been confirmed, resulting in 38
deaths.
Currently between three and five new cases a
week are reported.
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