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Ecuador to launch COVID-19 vaccination pilot project

QUITO
2020-12-15 06:17

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QUITO, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador will launch a COVID-19 vaccination pilot project from January to February 2021, before rolling out mass immunization, Deputy Health Minister Xavier Solorzano said Monday.

The pilot program will prioritize high-risk groups, such as healthcare workers and people over 55 years of age who reside in elderly-care homes, he said.

"We are working on being able to make an initial vaccination pilot project perhaps at the end of January, beginning of February," Solorzano said in an interview with a local radio station.

Mass vaccination should follow from March to April 2021, he said.

Ecuador has registered 202,180 cases of COVID-19 infection and 9,337 deaths from the disease, according to the Ministry of Health's daily pandemic report.
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