Venezuela’s main academy of medicine has asked the US to add the South American nation to its international donor list for millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines, despite a political freeze between the countries.
“The amount of vaccines that have arrived to Venezuela ... represents less than 10% of what Venezuela needs," the country's main academy of medicine said in a statement.
Enrique Lopez-Loyo, president of the politically independent National Academy of Medicine, made the request to U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela James Story at a meeting on May 2, the academy said in a statement on Monday. Venezuela has received around 1.4 million vaccines from China and Russia, according to the Health Ministry, and hopes to receive doses for about 5 million people from the World Health Organization’s COVAX program.
The academy’s plea, however, for U.S. supplies of AstraZeneca PLC vaccines runs contrary to the government’s refusal in March to authorize the vaccine because of reports of blood clotting in some recipients.
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