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No private company will commercialize vaccines against COVID-19 in 2021. The Vice Minister of Public Health Luis Surez Ognio clarified today that all the vaccines that are currently being developed in the world to combat the coronavirus will be channeled -when they are ready- through of the ministries of Health of the countries.Suarez Ognio specified that the anti-COVID-19 vaccines will be administered by the Minsa and no private laboratory will be able to offer them directly to the population in 2021. He also took the opportunity to emphasize that the Minsa is doing what is necessary to have the safest and most effective vaccines and to make them available to the population for free.At the news conference on Informational Fridays the vice minister pointed out that the application of the coronavirus vaccine is voluntary but emphasized that the more people are vaccinated the less possibility that the corona will continue to spread among the population.He remarked that when a person is vaccinated they not only protect themselves but also their family and the community.Four other laboratories interested in carrying out studies in PeruArturo Jarama representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who participated in todays conference reported that the Curevac laboratory will begin its phase 3 clinical trials in November and that those of Johnson Johnson and AstraZeneca are still on hold. However it revealed that there are several pharmaceutical companies from France China Australia and the United Kingdom that have expressed their interest in carrying out studies in Peru and three of them could start work next DecemberHe also commented that no laboratory will be able to serve 100 of the vaccines that our country requires so there is the possibility that a basket will be formed with three or four laboratories to access vaccines in the first quarter of 2021.
