MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th December, 2020) Panama has agreed to purchase 5.5 million doses of vaccine against COVID-19 to immunize 80 percent of the population of the country, the Panamanian health ministry said.
"Panama agreed with four of five principal developers of the COVID-19 vaccines to purchase 5.5 million doses that will enable to vaccinate around 80 percent of the population," the ministry said on Tuesday.
Panama expects to receive the first doses of the vaccines against COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2021.
To date, Panama has registered 238,279 positive COVID-19 cases, including 189,764 people who have recovered and 3,933 who have died.
