A new Aerolneas Argentinas flight arrived today at the Ezeiza International Airport with 768,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus, por what adds up to a total of almost 24 million doses received in Argentina since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GHQ, of the state-owned company left Beijing at 4:24 p.m. on Monday (local time) under the operation number AR1067 and, after making a technical stopover in Madrid for refueling, arrived at 6:00 p.m. : 00 at the international airport of Ezeiza. While awaiting their arrival, they were received by the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matas Lammens, who stated that “This new shipment is to renew hope for all Argentines.”
And he added: “To see that vaccines continue to arrive and that the vaccination process is so advanced, which means is hope. It is to feel that we are going to resume the life we had until before this pandemic, it is to regain social life with our affections. ”
As indicated by the government in a statement, “it is the second load of a batch of 2 million immunizations from that laboratory, whose reception started yesterday with 768,000 vaccines and will be completed at dawn tomorrow, Wednesday, through a commercial flight of Qatar Airways that will bring 464,000 more“.
The 768,000 doses that arrived yesterday from the Chinese capital, have already begun to be distributed to all the jurisdictions of the country, operation to be completed between tomorrow and Thursday.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, anticipated this morning at a press conference at Casa Rosada that next Friday “another 1,181,500 serums from AstraZeneca will arrive, and that At least one other flight to Russia is already confirmed, to look for more doses, especially of component 2 of Sputnik V “.
According to the data of the Public Vaccination Monitor, the online registry that shows in real time the immunization operation throughout the Argentine territory, until this afternoon 20,637,290 vaccines were distributed in all jurisdictions, of which 18,591,717 were applied: 14,840,605 people received the first dose and 3,751,112 already have the complete scheme.
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