DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Dominican Presidents have a constitutional obligation to report to the National Assembly each 27 February. In general, this speech, which this year was more than 10,000 words, reviews events over the previous months and sets forth plans and programs for the coming months and years. Luis Abinader did not disappoint in this aspect.

While he talked about many issues, he focused on the vaccination campaign now underway and stated that by May or June 80% of the population would be vaccinated. The government has purchased 10 million vaccines from Pfizer, 8 million from AstraZeneca and two million from the United Nations program Covax. The Dominican Republic has received 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines made under license in India and a further 90,000 are expected “within days”. China sent over 768,000 vials of its SinovacBiotech vaccine.

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