In total, there will be 40 hours of operation until your arrival in Argentina.
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The Aerolneas Argentinas flight that brings a new shipment of Sputnik V vaccines against the coronavirus took off from Moscow and is scheduled to arrive in the country around 3:00 p.m.
The shipment with the new doses will be added to the 3,843,565 distributed throughout the country, of which 2,939,364 have already been applied, according to the Public Vaccination Monitor, with updated information this Friday at 6:00.
In its seventh operation to Moscow, the Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GIF, left Sheremetievo International Airport with the AR1061 nomination at 04:08 (local time), at 22:08 in our country, after a little more than 6 hours on the tarmac, which was the time required to stow the cargo.
The aircraft had taken off, with the AR1060 nomination, at 1.15am from the Ezeiza international airport and, after 15 and a half hours of flight, arrived in the Russian capital at 10:54 p.m. (local time), at 4:54 p.m. in Argentina. .
On Thursday night, on a national network, President Alberto Fernandez referred to the “global shortage of vaccines” and reported that “only 18 countries have received 88% of the vaccines that have been distributed so far.”
“The vast majority of the countries are in a great desert, with few or no access to vaccines. There is a global delay in the delivery of vaccines and there are production, logistics, and input problems, given an absolutely exceptional complexity”, indic.
“This year we have to take care of ourselves while the largest vaccination plan in our history advances,” said the President, “regardless of the political or social differences” and working “in a coordinated manner with the 24 jurisdictions and with the entire Argentine society.” .
Flights in search of vaccines
From the moment of its departure from Buenos Aires, until its return, there will be 40 hours of operation and, as happened with the other flights, the aircraft transited its route to Moscow as a “ferry”, that is, without cargo or passengers. and returns in freighter flight condition.
The operation is again in charge of 10 crew members, including pilots and co-pilots, who are joined by cargo, maintenance and cabin crew technicians, resulting in 20 people on board.
Aerolneas Argentinas began its flights to Moscow at the end of December and, in the first two flights, 600 thousand doses of Sputnik V arrived in the country, while in the third they were 220 thousand.
At bedroom 400 thousand vaccines were transferred to the flight, and then another 904 thousand from the People’s Republic of China followed.
The fifth The trip went to Russia again to purchase 517,000 injections, and the sixth operation brought another 732,000 into the country from Moscow.
With the idea of intensifying the vaccination rate throughout the country in the short term and after the agreement that will allow the arrival of 3 million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, the national government rushes the details to also achieve a rapid arrival of that vaccine. cargo.
According to sources from the Casa Rosada, after signing the contract with China, the representatives of both parties are working on the finest adjustments to the operation that will unite Buenos Aires and Beijing, in the coming days.
Government spokesmen explained that, since it is 3 million doses and following previous experience, it is possible that a convoy of planes will be needed to complete the operation.
The agreement with the National Pharmaceutical Corporation of China (the laboratory that produces the Sinopharm vaccine) worked for several weeks, was confirmed last week and converting the drug produced in Beijing into the one that put the most doses in Argentina, surpassing -for the moment – to Sputnik-V.
Meanwhile, the arrival of the AstraZeneca vaccines co-produced with Mexico (through the agreement between the mAbxiencie laboratories, from Argentina, and Liomont, from the Aztec country) is still awaiting for the beginning of April, in addition to the new shipments from Moscow and a schedule that establishes the deliveries of the Covax mechanism (global vaccine access fund of which the World Health Organization is part).
The Government is closely monitoring the epidemiological situation in neighboring countries due to the rapid increase in Covid-19 infections, especially in Brazil, where several regions already have their health systems collapsed and the circulation of a more contagious and lethal strain was detected. of the virus.
Regarding the fate of Chinese vaccines, the temporary impossibility of supplying them to people over 59 years of age (their application has not yet been authorized in that age group) opens the door for them to be applied to members of the security forces, armed forces and teachers.
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