City of Buenos Aires negotiates purchase of one million CanSino vaccines

The government of city ​​of Buenos Aires progress in the negotiation for the acquisition of vaccines against the coronavirus developed by CanSino organic products. the the initial agreement covers 300,000 doses, but it could be expanded up to a million sera. confirmed it to TN.com.ar the Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Fernand Quiros.

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The agreement is well advanced, but not yet “finished”. It happens that the ANMAT did not authorize the use of single dose vaccines CanSino in the country. Right after that approval the City of Buenos Aires can close negotiations with the laboratory.

Shortly before, at the end of May, the government of Alberto Fernández had confirmed the conclusion of an agreement with the chinese lab CanSino organic products acquire the vaccine a single dose. In September 2020, this institution began the phase III clinical trial in Pakistan, Mexico, Russia, Chile and Argentina in volunteers over 18 years of age.

In the country, it has been tested in more than 2000 volunteers in 11 health centers in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA) and Mar del Plata.

The single-dose vaccine CanSino He was among the laboratories with which the national government was negotiating and the chief of staff, Santiago Cafiero, confirmed that an agreement had been reached, as he had advanced TN.com.ar in April.

Also Province of Buenos Aires announced last week a similar deal with the lab Bharat Biotech, from India, for the purchase of 10 million Covaxin vaccines, which also requires ANMAT approval.

But the governments of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and of Axel Kicillof They are not the only ones to have opened negotiations with laboratories outside the National Executive. After Cafiero said that no local or private state was prevented from doing so, several provinces have started the process, but so far only the city and province of Buenos Aires have made so much progress in the agreements.

Son eight jurisdictions who have started conversations with laboratories. Jujuy on the verge of making a deal to bring one million Sinopharm vaccines; Jump negotiates with Johnson & Johnson; Mendoza with CanSino, and Cordoba, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos have launched joint action, but so far with little results.

The city of Buenos Aires is the district with the best vaccination rate in the whole country. With at least one dose, the 35.91% of its population Yes allowed the application of sera to persons aged 50 to 54 years without pre-existing disease.

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Many jurisdictions have started negotiations, in particular for bypass bottlenecks which generates the lack of vaccines in the world and that at certain times during the campaign, he caused a lack of serum for several days in certain regions of Argentina to immunize their population.