500 liters of Sputnik V arrived from Russia for the production of 760 thousand seconds of doses

The shortage of second doses of Russian vaccine Spoutink V, was compensated on Monday by the arrival in Argentina of 500 liters of component 2 of the vaccine, which will be used by the Richmond laboratory to produce the doses in Argentina. This content will allow progress to be made with the production of approximately 760,000 additional doses in the short term.

“Today, an additional 500 liters of component II of the Sputnik V vaccine have arrived in our country, which will allow us to continue producing approximately 760,000 additional doses”, they shipped from the lab. “They will soon be available for our people. We continue to work!”

Government seeks to get out of controversy over letter to Russia, assures there will be second doses

The delays in the arrival of the second doses of Sputnik V, which include the breach of the contract by the Russian Investment Fund, have been a serious headache for the government, as in many cases it does not allow the completion of immunization schedules within stipulated timeframes. three-month period between the first and second vaccination.

While the Massive arrival of Chinese Sinopharm vaccines shortened dose interval to one month (and in some cases three weeks), and there has also been a shortening to two months for AstraZeneca applications, with Sputnik V the opposite phenomenon occurs. The aggravating factor is that most of the people who received the first component of Sputnik V, since it was the vaccine that had a higher rate of arrival in the first half of the year, are over 60 years of age.

The delays aroused the discontent of the government, which In an electronic letter written by presidential adviser Cecilia Nicolini and addressed to the Russian Investment Fund, he complained about the non-compliance and he expressed his deep disappointment with Argentina being the first country in the Americas to rely on the Sputnik vaccine, as much of the western world has turned its back on it and raised suspicion about its safety and its effectiveness.

After the controversial letter to Russia, Nicolini said that “the important thing” is to have vaccinated 50%

To date, 41,833,930 vaccines have arrived in the country, of which 14,000,000 correspond to Sinopharm; 11,868,830 to Sputnik V, (9,375,670 of component 1 and 2,493,160 of component 2); 9,941,100 to those of AstraZeneca and Oxford, the active ingredient of which was produced in Argentina; 3,500,000 in Moderna; 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca via the WHO COVAX mechanism and 580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield.

According to the Public Vaccination Observatory, until the morning of Wednesday July 28, 37,123,414 doses of vaccines have been distributed throughout the country, while 30,655,272 have been applied. Of this total, there are 24,302,432 people vaccinated with the first dose and 6,352,840 have the full vaccination schedule.

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