Carla Vizzotti: There is an ability to change vaccination

The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, assured this Tuesday that the provinces and the city of Buenos Aires have improved their logistics and their distribution capacities to be able to generate that the vaccination against the Covid-19 is intensified in the coming days.

The official spoke at Ezeiza International Airport with Defense Minister Agustín Rossi. The two agreed that as the vaccines arrive, the campaign will progress more quickly.

“Right now, we have a plane flying to China to bring 1 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine,” Vizzotti said, explaining that the vaccine reception and distribution operation is advancing at the highest speed. possible.

As he said, the national government and the company in charge of logistics, Andreani, print the distribution of doses arriving from abroad as quickly as possible, but he clarified that it is neither easy nor automatic. .

“It is necessary to understand the complexity of what the immunization program is on the part of the population and those who pass the information on. Once the vaccines arrive, they go through a process of checking and recounting, checking the temperature, ”he explained.

Once the vaccines are put on planes and arrive in the jurisdictions, the same operation is repeated because it is necessary to monitor the storage of the drug. “It takes a while,” Vizzotti said.

The official also explained that the loading of data by those who apply the doses to people is done at the speed allowed by the local infrastructure, because in many small towns in the interior the situation is not the same as in a provincial capital.

“When vaccines are applied, the notification process in some places is delayed because they do not have the ability everywhere to have the Internet and download data symbolically. It’s the job of a lot of people, ”he warned.

And he specified that “the process of arrival of vaccines, customs clearance and distribution to provinces and within provinces has never been so rapid”.

“Speed ​​of application is important and there is always a capacity to increase as the number of doses increases. We are working with all jurisdictions and the truth is that the capacity to scale up immunization is there, ”said Vizzotti.

And he concluded: “We hope that a significant number of doses will arrive and that the vaccination can be extended to the target population.”

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