The government has proposed to the United States to send airline planes to have priority in the distribution of the donated vaccines in the region

Aerolineas Argentinas’ experience in researching Sputnik V vaccines in Russia, and Sinopharm’s trips to China, could become an ace of the sword for Alberto Fernández’s government in its attempt to secure a part of the 80 million doses that the Joe Biden administration is about to give to countries which are in a delicate health situation due to the coronavirus, among which Argentina.

// A few days before the expiration with the Paris Club, the government ratified that it would not make any further adjustments and that it needed time to develop

On Wednesday 26, during a press conference, the Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere of the National Security Council, Juan Gonzalez, confirmed that the United States will assess the proposal that the Chancellor Felipe Solá He formulated it in Ecuador, a country they both visited on the occasion of the inauguration of Guillermo Lasso. The Argentinian official made it clear to him that the country was able to pick up the doses through his flag carrier, which would save the United States from having to face any inconvenience associated with the transfer. of these lots.

“We had them ready to go looking for themWas the Chancellor’s sentence to González as he was able to reconstruct TN.com.ar based on official sources. The North American official promised to analyze the case, which for the Argentine government was not minor information. Close to Felipe Solá, they assure that it is not customary for officials in this country to use the word “compromise”, which aroused significant expectations on the part of the Argentinian authorities.

Solá’s sentence was not isolated. Is that González admitted that his country was having difficulty distributing some of these vaccines. This is why the head of the External Relations portfolio was tasked with making it understood that Argentina would not be a disadvantage but a solution: the country has Airbus 330-200 in a position to go in search of doses when the United States to fix it.

// The government of Buenos Aires has announced that next week it will start vaccinating people between the ages of 18 and 40 with co-morbidities

In this sense, Biden’s advisor commented to Solá about the possibility of the doses being delivered by the COVAX mechanism, with which Argentina has already signed a contract for 9 million doses. If possible, the Argentine government prefers a state-to-state donation agreement, as this organization which seeks the equitable distribution of the serum around the world has shown difficulty in meeting delivery deadlines.

“For now, they have formalized the donation, but they don’t know how or to whom. In its priority are the countries most threatened by the pandemic, which are widespread and are going through a delicate economic situation, unfortunately we meet these conditions», They say in Casa Rosada.

To reach an agreement between the countries, there would be a kind of carry vaccines: the government would go to the door of the hangars where the doses must be brought to Argentina. This media had explained weeks ago that the Casa Rosada had even offered to the United States to buy these vaccines, but the Biden administration would get rid of them only by a donation.

The United States is about to donate 60 million AstraZeneca vaccines that have not been authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration and certain 20 million doses of Moderna, Pfizer and Janssen. Obtaining some of these vaccines is a priority for Solá, who has been facing for weeks a negotiation process and in-depth conversations with the American authorities, reinforced by the Argentine ambassador in that country. Jorge Argüello.

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On the other hand, during his meeting with González, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated his request to the United States release AstraZeneca’s 3.2 million vaccines that were packaged in a lab in Albuquerque and remain in that country. These are doses which are part of the contract with AstraZeneca UK LIMITED and which had to be prepared in Mexico, but due to the difficulties of the plant located in the state of Queretaro in acquiring some critical supplies, they had to be sent to North America. .