The first 800 thousand Chinese doses of 8 million scheduled arrive – News

Sinopharm’s first 800,000 vaccines, out of a total of 8 million that the Argentine government has acquired from China, will arrive this Sunday from Beijing aboard an Aerolineas Argentinas plane, as part of an operation that will involve the arrival daily flights throughout the week in order to strengthen the Strategic Vaccination Plan, which already has 27 million doses.

The mega-operation developing the flag line began last Friday with the departure of the Airbus 330-200 which took off from Ezeiza airport at 12.59 p.m. and landed at Beijing airport at 1.15 p.m. Argentine time yesterday. (0h15). local hour).

As expected, the plane will once again set foot on Argentine soil this Sunday, around 7 p.m., with the first shipment of 800 thousand doses.

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From Wednesday 7, meanwhile, successive flights will start taking off daily until Thursday 15.

The returns of these flights are scheduled every day between Friday 9 and Saturday 17, when the last of this first stage will arrive, completing at that time the first 8 million doses of Shinopharm vaccines purchased in China.

Flight AR1070 took off on Friday shortly after 1:00 p.m. from “Ministro Pistarini” airport bound for China, with a stopover in the Spanish city of Madrid.

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“The first of 10 flights leaving for China in the next fortnight of July has already taken off. An unprecedented operational and logistical schedule,” said flag line chairman Pablo Ceriani, through Twitter.

The 8 million vaccines are part of the recently concluded agreement with China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp, whereby 24 million vaccines will arrive in the country between July and September.

Aerolineas Argentinas pointed out that it had made a total of 21 flights to Moscow in which 11,263,375 doses of Sputnik V were transported and seven flights from Beijing, with which a total of 5,195,200 vaccines arrived in the country. : that is to say on the 28 flights brought 16,458,575 metered.