Announce that between Sunday and Monday, one million AstraZeneca vaccines will arrive in the country

The government announced that between Sunday and Monday, more than a million doses vaccine against the AstraZeneca coronavirus. Of this total, 843 thousand belong to the first item of the contract for more than 22 million that the government has signed with the British laboratory.

According to official sources, the first shipment with 204 thousand doses He will arrive this Sunday at 6.15 am at Ezeiza International Airport on a KLM flight from the Dutch city of Amsterdam.

The doses that will reach the country are part of the Covax mechanism, in which the WHO and many countries participate to jointly negotiate with the laboratories.

On Monday 24 afternoon, the government announced, 843,000 additional doses of AstraZeneca will arrive from the United States, the active ingredient of which was developed in the laboratories of pharmaceutical businessman Hugo Sigman in the city of Garín in Buenos Aires.

This shipment is part of the agreement by which Argentina is expected to receive more than 22 million doses. The contract suffered delays this complicated the vaccination plan in the country.

“We are awaiting the doses of Covax which arrive tomorrow and the start of the realization of the direct contract with AstraZeneca with doses which arrive from Monday”, explained the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, while assuring that “we have also this week two flights from Russia, of Sputnik V with a large number of doses ”.

On this last point, the government detailed that this Sunday at dawn an Aerolineas Argentinas plane will leave for Moscow to look for more doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. Its return is scheduled for Monday afternoon, even if it does not. has not been confirmed how many doses to take.

At the Federal Health Council (COFESA), Minister Vizzotti announced to her provincial counterparts that Argentina will receive 3,960,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus during the month of May.

“These doses correspond to the contract the country signed with AstraZeneca in November 2020 and will give new impetus to the national vaccination plan against the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” the presidency said in a statement.

In this context, the national government specified that “the doses which will soon arrive in the country are part of a total of 22,400,000 doses of vaccines that Argentina has acquired thanks to a contract of advance sale purchase held on November 6, 2020 “.

During a message recorded and broadcast on the national channel to announce the new restrictions in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, President Alberto Fernández affirmed that Russia “is normalizing the delivery of vaccines”, and clarified: “We are waiting for a another million (doses of Sputnik V Vaccine) for the next few days. “

“Hasta hoy 7 de cada 10, mayores de 60 años, han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna. Acelerando la aplicación, en pocas semanas más habremos vacunado a la totalidad de personas en riesgo, que optaron por vacunarse”, resaltó el jefe of State.

In addition, he revealed that he had had a conversation with the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who confirmed “the rapid shipment of a large quantity of vaccine” that the two countries produced with AstraZeneca.

In this sense, he explained that he had also contacted the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, to whom he had asked “his intervention so that Argentina can continue to receive the Sinopharm vaccines”.

Argentina has so far received 12.6 million doses of vaccine from Sinopharm, Gamaleya Institute, Covishield and AstraZeneca laboratories of the Covax Fund.

According to the Vaccination Monitor, nearly 11 million vaccines have been applied to date, of which a total of 8,638,944 people have received the first dose and 2,319,715 have received the second dose.

LGP