Exclusive | The Russian vaccine flight plan: they arrive on the 24th with the Vizzotti delegation

The national government insists on obtaining and implementing the first vaccines against the coronavirus before the end of the year and everything seems to indicate that Russian Sputnik V it will be the first to arrive in the country. As he could know PROFILE, Tuesday December 22, a Aerolineas Argentinas plane to Russia who will come back Thursday 24 with the first doses.

The plane will not only bring the first Russian vaccines, which would be 600 thousand doses to vaccinate 300 thousand people, but it will also come with the Argentinian entourage headed by the secretary of public health, Carla Vizzotti, who was with the inspectors of the ANMAT to speed up vaccine arrival and approval.

Sputnik V: steps forward to bring the first doses before the end of the year

As he could know PROFILE, an Aerolineas Argentinas aircraft will depart on December 22 with destination in Russia. However, the flight plan will be defined according to the meteorological report of the last hours. If the weather is nice, they can go straight to Russia, otherwise they should stop in Madrid to refuel.

The delegation led by Vizzotti would return this weekend, but will finally return on the 24th with the vaccines for celebrate Christmas with the first doses against COVID-19 in the country.

Vaccines they travel in the cellar, no need to change planes. The plane will arrive, load the doses and the delegation, and return home. Travel to 10 crew members in the plane

The government’s goal is that the first 600,000 doses to vaccinate 300,000 people arrive before the end of the year, as announced by President Alberto Fernández on December 10, during the contract to acquire 20 million doses of the vaccine.

Sputnik V is 91.4% effective 21 days after application

On September 12, Vizzotti left for Russia with members of ANMAT to learn the technical details of the coronavirus vaccine and thus advance the local authorization that Sputnik V must have to enter Argentina.

The national official, the main face of the Ministry of Health in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, took the 4 p.m. flight from Ezeiza International Airport in Moscow with the presidential adviser. Cecilia Nicolini and four ANMAT techniques.

The objective of the Argentine delegation was to be able to “check in situ any doubts to be raised about the production conditions and the quality of the vaccine“, explained the president Alberto Fernandez a few days ago at a press conference at Casa Rosada.

With the collaboration of Rosario Ayerdi

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