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Sources close to the national government announced that this weekend more than 864,000 doses of the Oxford / AstraZéneca vaccine will arrive in Ezeiza. The provision comes from the program Covax (collaboration + vaccines, in English), in which Argentina has bought and paid for nine million vaccines, but very few have arrived so far. The game will allow people between the ages of 60 and 69 to start vaccinating with more intensity, which is no less than 3,500,000 in the country. Confirmations of further remittances are expected in the coming days.

The WHO Covax program, which aimed to equalize the distribution of vaccines between central and peripheral countries, immediately encountered enormous difficulties: the laboratories turned their backs and gave almost all of the production. to central countries. In addition, the powerful began to ban the departure of vaccines from their countries.

Only 218,000 members of the Covax program had arrived in Argentina and the WHO had broken promise after promise. This weekend’s vaccines come from the Netherlands – like the previous game – and were made in South Korea.

The Oxford / AstraZéneca doses can come on a regular KLM flight because they do not need to be stored at 20 degrees below zero as with the Sputnik V. They have simpler logistics, they take up much less space because they do not require refrigerant and it is not essential to send an Aerolineas Argentina plane to look for them.

More vaccines

At Casa Rosada, we are waiting for the arrival of two more matches. In the United States, the 900,000 vaccines are in the final phase of quality control, also from Oxford / AstraZéneca, whose active ingredient was manufactured in Argentina. At the same time, confirmation of a new flight to Moscow awaits.

With the vaccines already arrived, districts are able to complete immunization of people over 70 and in some cases over 60 with comorbidities such as diabetes. These 900,000 would make it possible to end with the +70 and to start more intensely with the over 60s.

Clearly, the battle for Covid has several fronts. One is measures to reduce infections. Another is vaccination. Israel, the United Arab Emirates and, now, the United States, have significantly reduced the number of deaths compared to the high percentages of the vaccinated population.