On Wednesday, Colombian officials announced that COVID-19 vaccines are ready to be distributed in the country.
Colombia’s Health Ministry currently has warehouses that can store approximately 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.
In the new vaccination drive, the government will try and vaccinate approximately 30 million individuals.
COVID-19 vaccinations are expected to begin in February.
Colombia reported its first case of COVID-19 on 6 March 2020.
The United States is currently leading global COVID-19 cases with over 24.7 million infections and 411,434 fatalities, although India trails behind with 10.5 million cases and 152,747 deaths. As for the third-highest caseload and death toll, Brazil follows with 8.5 million cases and 211,511 deaths.
The novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, and has infected more than 96.5 million individuals worldwide, resulting in over 2 million fatalities across 219 countries and territories.
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