Coronavirus: Argentina will receive 1.9 million vaccines through the Covax system until May

Vaccine shipments through the international Covax system started yesterday and in the distribution planned until May, Argentina appears with the 1,944 billion doses of the 9 million reserved.

In a preliminary estimate of allocations a month ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 2,275,200 doses for the country on the administration schedule for the first half of the year.

A few moments ago, Covax coordinators, including the WHO, released an update of these figures which will be adjusted in the coming weeks as countries finalize the deals and depending on storage capacity. availability and internal vaccine distribution capacity.

All doses the country will receive are, for now, from AstraZeneca / Oxford. Thanks to Covax, governments can also access the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine and, in the coming weeks, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which the US regulatory authority has just cleared for emergency use. This vaccine, unlike the other two, works with a single dose.

“We are going to distribute 11 million doses this week,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, told a press conference this morning in which he attended. THE NATION.

The new forecast, which will be adjusted again at the end of the week, provides until May for the delivery of 237 million vaccines to 142 countries by May and with batches that will increase according to production capacity, according to representatives of the ‘Gavi Alliance. Vaccines and the Coalition for the Promotion of Innovations for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI), which coordinates the Covax system with the WHO.

The first shipments, which started yesterday, leave for Africa and, with doses of Pfizer, Colombia also received the first 117,000 vaccines yesterday and became the first country in the region to access doses of Covid-19 via Covax.

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