GALÁPAGOS FREE COVID ISLANDS
Galápagos will become the first covid-19-free archipelago in Latin America.
A vaccination plan has already begun in the Galapagos Islands, which plans to vaccinate the entire adult population by the end of May.
Pfizer approved an advance of 40,000 doses of its vaccine to vaccinate the entire adult population of Galapagos, where approximately 30,000 people live.
The President of the Galapagos Governing Council, Norman Wray, explained the importance of vaccination in the archipelago.
"In the history of mankind, the islands have always been spaces highly vulnerable to pandemics."
The productive, commercial and tourism sectors will be vaccinated from May 3 to 7.
Eighty-five percent of the archipelago's economy depends on tourism.
The vaccination is also given in order to accelerate the economic reactivation of the islands, which live on tourism for the most part, but also had a decrease in its important scientific research last year.
The results for tourism were devastating. According to the Galapagos Government's Annual Visitor Report, 72,519 people visited the islands in the year 2020, down 73.27% from arrivals recorded in the year 2019, when 271,238 tourists were received.
In other words, there were 198,719 fewer visitors in 2020 than in 2019.
¿Por qué es importante vacunar a toda la población de #Galápagos? Aquí la respuesta 👇 #EcuadorSeVacuna pic.twitter.com/oMOzEMSaPa
— Norman Wray (@normanwray) April 17, 2021