MACAO -. Macau Region Special Administrative Government (SAR) will spend 420 million patacas (about $ 52.61 million) to buy COVID 19 shots for all residents of Macao, said Commissioner of Health of the HKSAR on Tuesday
Macao Health Bureau director Lei Chin Ion told reporters that the SAR government contacted six vaccine producers from mainland China and abroad to purchase 1.4 million doses of COVID-19 shots.
added that the price for each dose was estimated at 300 patacas (about $ 37.58), and the government will spend 420 million patacas (about $ 52.61 million) in total.
Lei said so after having participated in an opening ceremony of a community health center on the Macau peninsula.
from Tuesday, Macau does not have COVID-19 transmission in the community, no local cases confirmed for 219 consecutive days and no cases imported for 130 consecutive days.
