2 million additional coronavirus vaccines are expected this week

As, This week, it is also expected, with a date to be confirmed, the arrival of more than 900 thousand doses of AstraZeneca from the United States., as part of the agreement that Argentina has signed with this laboratory and the University of Oxford for the local production of the antigen at the Sinergium plant and to complete packaging in Mexico.

With the 2,148,600 doses of AstraZeneca arriving in Ezeiza this morning, there are already nearly 3 million inoculations received (13.3%) out of a total of 22.4 million envisaged in the agreement.

For her part, the presidential adviser Cecilia Nicolini was shown today optimistic about vaccine production in Argentina, in association with foreign laboratories, and mentioned the production agreements in the country part of Sputnik V (Russia), Sinopharm (China), but also the Cubans Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala.

“In the case of Sputnik V, we are very advanced in the negotiations to start the production process of the final part, which is called filtering and conditioning ”, in Argentina, said the presidential adviser in dialogue with Discovery radio.

He added that with the Chinese laboratory that produces the Sinopharm vaccine, “there are advanced conversations in collaboration with the Argentine company Sinergium to also be part of the final process of producing the active ingredient” in the country.

“And we are also in talks to support or collaborate in the vaccine production process that Cuba is carrying out, in this case Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala”, added the presidential adviser.

Regarding the agreement on Cuban vaccines, he explained that he evaluates “the acquisition of the vaccines that are already produced in Cuba” and also “the support for this production so that they can not only reach the Cuban and Argentinian citizens. , but also for the rest.. of Latin America “.

Finally, Nicolini mentioned that they are “in dialogue with the Janssen vaccine from Johnson & Johnson” and are “in talks” with the Chinese CanSino.

“We hope to announce other possible vaccines in the days and weeks to come,” he concluded.

In this context, he recalled that “Argentina has signed contracts for around 65 million doses”, being “the majority of duplicate programs”, and celebrated the arrival of over two million AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in the country today and 17 million the total number of doses received.