Coronavirus: Government confirmed another flight was leaving for Russia and more vaccines would arrive via the Covax system

the President Alberto Fernández spoke today about access to vaccines against Covid-19 in Argentina and stressed that negotiations are continuing to achieve this. “We have never closed any doors when it comes to vaccine research,” he said, referring to opposition critics and also stressed that his government’s vision for them had been endorsed. by United States President Joe Biden. “Vaccines are global goods,” which “must be socialized” because “there is a humanity that needs them,” he said of the need to grant patents.

In addition, today announced that “At 2 am (tomorrow) a flight leaves for Russia” to bring more vaccines, and advanced that more Covax will arrive in the coming days and that the national government work “to obtain more frequency” in the arrival of doses which “allow this vaccination process to continue”. This was stated during the zoom participation in an act in a vaccination center in the city of Pilar in Buenos Aires.

In the speech he developed to highlight the arrival of 3 million vaccines in the province of Buenos Aires, Fernández spoke of his government’s efforts to access doses. “Last year we were only concerned with getting vaccines, not with a country’s ideology, only with proven laboratory excellence,” he said with reference to the moment. they were questioned by sectors of the opposition to get closer to Russia and Cuba.

“They even accused us in the criminal justice system of the crime of poisoning and I wonder how many of those who do not register to be vaccinated do not do so contaminated by a dissolving preaching that condemns many Argentines and Argentines to not be able to access to health, ”he complained.

On the other hand, he saved that he was the one who stressed the importance of the dissemination of vaccines. He also explained that in the past “it was unacceptable to think of blockades that would prevent vaccines from reaching the cities blocked by the great powers”.

In this sense, he declared: “With the same conviction, I continue to propose that the vaccine is a global good and that scientific and technological progress must be socialized because there is a humanity which needs it and more than all the poor sectors of the world which are the most vulnerable ”.

“Yesterday a powerful [por Joe Biden] He said the vaccine can’t be a business, it has to be a global asset, and me and Pope Francis have said the same so that the vaccine isn’t a commercial project so we all have access, ”he said. again emphasized Fernández.

“Those of us who are not in the countries that get 90% of the vaccines work a lot and we get them in China, Russia, labs like AstraZeneca and we keep looking for them in labs in the United States and we never closed doors when researching vaccines“, Hill.

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