The vaccination rate in Argentina reached its lowest level: only 135,306 daily doses were applied

Without a doubt, between 2020 and 2021, at least when it comes to the Coronavirus, the main difference relates to one word: vaccines. La creación y surgimiento de varias inoculaciones por parte de varios laboratorios de los países más desarrollados del mundo, han hecho el virus del SAR-CoV2 comience a ser, de forma muy paulatina -dependiendo claro de qué punto del globo se hable-, un mal memory.

However, in Argentina it is still a long time to think about COVID-19 in this way. And this is mainly due to the shortage of vaccines.

Although large numbers have started arriving this week, the inoculation rate is still very slow, especially compared to countries like the United States, where, for example, 50 percent of the adult population has already been vaccinated.

According to the Infobae data unit, with yesterday’s data, at the end 7 days, They were placed 135,306 daily doses. The previous week, an average of 142,854 doses per day. This represents a decrease of -5.28%

The same thing happened in the province of Buenos Aires (PBA) and the city of Buenos Aires (CABA) for the same periods: the drop in PBA was 5%, while for CABA it was 6%. With this morning’s dispatch, they add 15,013,310 the doses delivered to the country (23% of what was promised) The available stock is 3,682,244 doses (between those of the Nation awaiting distribution and those already in the hands of the provinces)

A recent report prepared by Argentina’s foreign ministry highlights which vaccines have been purchased by at least 29 countries around the world as of May 14. With a population of 45 million, Argentina has purchased more than 65 million doses of which received just over 14 million vaccines. In total there are the aforementioned 15,013,310, whose 7645710 correspond to the Sputnik V vaccine -6,585,550 for the first component (the figure includes the 609,965 that arrived yesterday in Ezeiza) and 1,060,160 for the second component.

More, 1,286,400 from the AstraZeneca laboratory went through the Covax mechanism (204,000 of them arrived in the country on Sunday and 580,000 Covishield, which are those developed by this pharmaceutical company and the University of Oxford developed in the Serum Institute of India. Finally, 4 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine They have arrived in the country on several flights since February 25.

Another 843,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine entered the country on Monday and these are the first of the 4 million doses that the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, announced on May 11 which will arrive on the national territory before the end of the month. These are shipments corresponding to the contract signed last year by the 22.4 million doses between the Argentine government and the pharmaceutical company, whose compliance is delayed and has drawn criticism from the executive branch. The active ingredient in these doses was produced in Argentina by the center mAbxience biotechnology (Grupo Insud).

By the end of this week, Argentina will have received a significant flow of vaccines, largest since the start of the coronavirus vaccination campaign at the end of 2020. The challenge will then be to speed up the campaign and avoid creating a bottleneck. in the application of the available dose.

The national government has started to distribute part of the received lots among the provinces, which are responsible for implementing vaccination according to general criteria set by the Ministry of Health.

The protocol states that at-risk groups should be prioritized at different stages: healthcare staff, people over 70 and people living in retirement homes, people over 60, strategic staff, people aged 18 to 59 with risk factors, other strategic groups.

Most districts are now finishing immunizing those over 60 and are making progress in immunizing young people with risk factors. However, there are different criteria.

For example, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, registration is open to people over 50 with a history of health and who are part of strategic groups (teachers, police, firefighters). Co-morbidities are credited with medical certificates. In the province of Buenos Aires, the registry is open to the entire population, but for the moment, people over 40 are being vaccinated, whose affidavit is sufficient to provide their health history. .

According to the last part of this Wednesday afternoon, they have been confirmed 532 new deaths and 35,399 infections in the last 24 hours. The Ministry of Health has indicated that 107,881 tests, with a positivity of 32.81%. With these data, the total number of infected since the start of the pandemic amounts to 3,622,135 and the fatal victims are 75,588

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