Alberto Fernández announced that another million Sputnik V vaccines would arrive from Russia

President Alberto Fernández confirmed this Thursday the arrival of a new million Sputnik V vaccines against the coronavirus. He did so on a national channel, announcing a strong closure activities to contain the progress of second hello of the pandemic.

The arrival of new shipments from Moscow was confirmed 48 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said “they have already settled rhythmic medication supplies for the vaccination of Argentinian citizens “and will underline that” the idea of ​​localizing the production of vaccines is under discussion “in our country.

As and when Aerolineas Argentinas is expected to send more two planes for Russia, between the weekend and the first days of next week.

Meanwhile, in his speech, the president confirmed the arrival of 4 million doses of AstraZeneca, although he did not give details on the date.

The arrival of the first batches of the contract signed with this laboratory was announced by Minister Carla Vizzotti last week. These initial shipments, the official said, will be for 3,960,000 doses and will be completed in May.

Argentina is part of the production process, since the active ingredient is produced here. Until now, AstraZeneca had manufactured millions of doses in our country and sent them to Mexico for the packaging process, but still no finished vaccine shipments are returned.

According to the contract signed in November, Argentina was to receive 2,382,000 vaccines in March and 4,040,000 in April.

To this were added, as initially agreed, 4,040,000 whose date in the calendar is the end of May; 3,451,000 from June; and 8,518,000 others until July 31. In total, there are 22,431,000 doses at a total cost of $ 89.6 million, as shown Bugle end of April.

Bureaucratic problems and a lack of supplies, as was officially reported, delayed the possibility that Argentina was able to purchase vaccines on time, as those who already prepaid 60 percent of the total.

Production was halted in Mexico after Argentinian laboratory Mabxience reported shipping the bulk equivalent of 60 million vaccines. Half had been diverted to a factory in the United States when Mexican lab Liomont began hinting at delays.

Argentina has received so far 12,698,250 vaccines. Of this total, 6,535,850 came from Sputnik V (5,475,690 from the first component and 1,060,160 from the second component); 4,000,000 from Sinopharm; 580,000 from Covishield / AstraZeneca; and 1,082,400 from AstraZeneca which were received through the COVAX mechanism of the World Health Organization.

This Thursday, we knew that the government was negotiating the purchase of the vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory CanSino Biologics, which has not yet been approved by Anmat, but with which it almost reached an agreement to bring between three and four million doses from July.

It is a vaccine that is applied in a single dose and, which Clarín has learned has an estimated market value of US $ 14. It is in the last phase of testing, having been tested in 78 study centers in Argentina, Russia and Pakistan. , Mexico and Chile.

According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor, as of Thursday afternoon, 12,549,351 doses have been distributed to provinces and 10,695,800 were applied. A total of 2,200,123 people received the two injections that complete the immunization schedule.

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