the agenda that the government manages for the arrival of new vaccines from Monday

Next week, the national government and provinces could finally take a break with the arrival of new vaccines against coronavirus, given that the available stock is coming to an end. The news circulated in the zoom that President Alberto Fernández had with the governors.

The news was not made official by Fernández when announcing the new restrictions that begin to apply from this Saturday. But the provisional schedule indicates that the first batch of the AstraZeneca laboratory finally would arrive next Monday.

However, the news would not be as good as the government had hoped, or at least had announced. For Monday the arrival of 1.3 million doses AstraZeneca, but there would be no new arrivals before first week of June.

The government said in early May that almost 4 million vaccines. The second batch of AstraZeneca would also be 1.3 million doses.

To this must be added, according to the information circulating in the zoom, a million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine which would arrive next Tuesday, in addition to almost 870 thousand doses of those corresponding to the Covax Fund who would also arrive in Ezeiza in the course of next week, although the exact day has not been confirmed.

According to this agenda, we should arrive in Argentina almost 1.4 million AstraZeneca vaccines to complete the initial batch promised, out of the total of 22.4 million doses purchased by the country. They were expected from March, but it took almost three months.

So far Argentina has received 12.6 million doses Sinopharm, Gamaleya Institute, Covishield and AstraZeneca laboratories of the Covax Fund. They have already been distributed to the provinces. According to the Vaccination Monitor, nearly 11 million vaccines have been applied to date.

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