Colombia vows universal access to free COVID vaccines
December 10, 2020
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Wednesday signed off a decree granting universal access to free vaccination against COVID-19.
The president issues a decree giving citizens free access to vaccines that would dramatically reduce the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 38,000 people in Colombia since it was first registered early this year.
The Senate and the House of Representatives voted in favor of universal access to vaccination on Friday already, but Duque used the extraordinary powers that came with a health emergency the president declared in March instead.