Coronavirus: Argentina is 9th in the world ranking …

Faced with the increase in coronavirus cases observed in recent days in the country, and the outbreaks that were already developing in different parts of the world, vaccines hold a high quota of hope. According to site statistics Our World in Data, which collects global information on covid-19, Argentina is the ninth country with the highest percentage of vaccinated against the virus per day and per million inhabitants. In the country, the average daily dose administered is 15,657. The classification, which is deduced from the average of the vaccinations carried out during the last seven days, It is led by Israel, where 125,486 doses are applied daily.

To the 300,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, which arrived in the country on December 24 and started to be administered since last Tuesday, will be added the next series of vaccines, from the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the Chinese state company Sinopharm. According to the website, 14.21 million doses of coronarivus vaccines have already been administered worldwide, of which 4.56 million have been distributed in the United States, 4.5 million in China and 1.37 million in Israel. .

Of all the countries in the ranking, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates use the vaccine produced by Sinopharm, while Russia and Argentina use Sputnik V. China, for its part, administers that of the pharmaceutical company Sinovac. The other countries that are among those listed by Our World in Data have the vaccine created by Pfizer and BioNTech, to which is added, in the cases of the United States and Canada, that of the Moderna laboratory.

In the midst of the race to negotiate and purchase vaccines, some countries have decided, like Argentina, to prioritize the application to healthcare professionals, while others, like Canada or the United Kingdom , allowed the vaccination of the two workers. essential as for people in risk groups, either clinically or because they are elderly.

“The so-called herd immunity will only be achieved when around 80% of the country’s population is vaccinated,” Eduardo López, infectologist and member of the group of experts advising the national government in the management of the pandemic. , and underlined that “collective immunity must be managed within each State”. On the possibility of applying a single dose in vaccines which require two applications to provide protection against the virus-like Sputnik V or Pfizer-, the specialist stressed that “with a single dose, one can have minimal protection in the short term. term, but the second is the one that raises the most antibodies. “

Although the administration of the vaccine in the country is progressing rapidly, following the strategic plan that the Ministry of Health has created for the application, the specialist estimated that it will take “at least a year, rather a year and a half” to immunize the percentage of the population needed to control viral infections. In the meantime, if the number of registered cases continues to increase, “we must continue to take care of us”, remarked López, for whom “the biggest mistake” that the population has made in recent weeks has been “to to believe that the disease had already passed “.