Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, accused by US prosecutors of involvement in drug trafficking. (Creative Commons)
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TEGUCIGALPA Honduras will begin receiving nearly 430,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in March through the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global COVAX program for poor and middle-income countries, the Honduran health minister said on Friday.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez had asked the WHO to make the Central American nation a priority for COVID-19 vaccines, citing the devastating effects of two recent hurricanes that pummeled the already weak economy.
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Eventually, the vaccines via COVAX are meant to inoculate nearly 2 million of the 9.5 million inhabitants in the small Central American country, where more than 4,000 people have died from COVID-19. The AstraZeneca vaccine requires two shots.
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