Russia informed Bolivia that it had “priority” in the next shipment of the second dose of Sputnik V

By means of an official note, the Russian background Direct Investment (RDIF) has informed Bolivia that it a priority destination for the next shipment of second dose vaccines Sputnik V. The letter was published in times of complaints and impatience in this country due to the lack of a second dose. Corn also affects the area, especially in Argentina

Indeed, the same is true in Argentina, which has been in the news in recent hours after having read another letter, the one that the presidential adviser Cecilia Nicolini – official negotiator of the vaccination plan – addressed to the RDIF for press for lack of second dose and it was not answered. Argentina expects something less than 7 million doses component 2 of the Russian vaccine.

“We assure you that the deliveries of the Sputnik V vaccine to Bolivia are within the our main current priorities», Reads the letter published by the Bolivian News Agency.

The Russian text continues. “By this note, we would also like to confirm that we plan to perform the next shipment of component two of the vaccine to Bolivia of the next batch available for export from Russia, ”reads the note to Bolivia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Benjamin Blanco.

In this letter, the Russian Fund also maintains that official data from the Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina shows that “the first injection of Sputnik Light has an effectiveness of 83.7% in elderly patients (60 – 79) and only 0.27% of those who take the first dose of Sputnik Light are infected with COVID-19, which is much lower than with the Astrazeneca (0.46%) and Sinopharm (0.49%) vaccines ) ”.

As reported by the EFE agency, in Bolivian cities like Sucre there were protests people who have not received the application of the second dose when it was already scheduled.

The controversy with Cecilia Nicolini

With a long email in English shipped July 7Cecilia Nicolini, in her suspicious role of negotiating the purchase of vaccines with foreign laboratories, complained to the Russian Fund for the delay. According to Clarin reported, this email was never answered because it was unread.

In this letter from Nicolini too a geopolitical bet has been revealed from the government of Alberto Fernández, underpinning the pressure to comply with the shipments that had been in violation for 7 months.

After publishing this information in this newspaper, the executive assured that the recipient had read the letter, but that there is no trace of the response because it was made “by telephone”.

“Monday 500 liters arrive (the equivalent of 800 thousand doses) of component two and next week 500 liters more to be produced in Richmond, ”argued the official who contacted the newspaper to say that there was a claim in which Russia participated.

Anyway, the answer written yes he arrived in Bolivia.

In this note – Nicolini, who led the negotiations in Moscow with Carla Vizzotti to purchase the vaccines developed by the Gamaleya Institute – said a “critical” situation due to the inability to complete immunization schedules.

“As I told you today, we are in a very critical situation. We were hoping that after the conversation you, Carla, Kirill and I had a few weeks ago, things would improve. But they got worse, ”the letter said.

In addition to this, you will need to know more about it.Hours after learning that the government had sent a letter to Russia demanding doses of the second component of the Sputnik V vaccine, the opposition called on the executive to give answers to Congress.

In addition to this, you will need to know more about it.The deputies of Juntos por el Cambio, led by the vice-president of the Committee on Health of this chamber, Carmen Polledo, presented a formal request for the summons of Nicolini and Vizzotti.

Unlike other vaccines that are applied in the country to fight against the coronavirus, Sputnik V is made up of two different doses of compounds. The first is based on a human adenovirus 26 (Ad26) vector; the second, from adenovirus 5 (Ad5).

As Clarin reported, the problem with Sputnik it is precisely in this second element, the realization of which turned out to be much more difficult than the first, which a few weeks ago Marcelo Figueiras, accountant and owner of the Richmond laboratory explained to this medium: “He it’s about productive performance ”.

However, Nicolini’s tone in his letter highlighted the president’s “disappointment” at the Russians’ months-long failure, despite the political commitment to his scientific development.

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