Peruvian FM resigns due to vaccination before national immunization program

Peruvian Foreign Minister Elizabeth Astete has resigned after acknowledging she received a dose of the coronavirus vaccine from China’s Sinopharm, outside of clinical trials and before the national immunization program began, Report informs referring to Reuters.

Astete, who had held her post since November, said she was inoculated on Jan. 22 after receiving an offer from the Peruvian university Cayetano Heredia, in charge of the trials, to receive the Sinopharm Group Co Ltd vaccine from a ‘remnant lot’ of the tests.

In early January, the government announced an agreement with Sinopharm to purchase up to 38 million doses of the vaccine.