The Aerolineas Argentinas plane coming from Russia this Sunday will bring more than half a million Sputnik V vaccines and some sources say that the figure could be stretched to 800,000 doses. To such an amount are added the 964,000 from Oxford / AstraZéneca that will be in Ezeiza around six in the morning this Sunday, brought by a KLM flight from Holland. Page 12 He consulted with the health authorities of the Province of Buenos Aires and CABA to verify how these doses will impact the vaccination plan.
The Buenos Aires district It will open in the first days of the week that registration begins to apply doses to people between 65 and 69 years old. In the Province of Buenos Aires, this weekend they finish vaccinating those over 70 and in the first days of the week it starts with those over 60 with diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, immune system affectations and others. The new item will make it possible to advance in the citation of people between 60 and 69 years old, without risky diseases, starting next weekend. (see separate).
Arrivals
Argentina had a slump in the arrival of vaccines. The last arrival was on April 4 – 497,000 doses of Sputnik V – meaning there was a 14-day drought. The difficulties were resolved in the best way, because in a single day a figure close to or greater than a million and a half doses arrives.
* The latest data came from Moscow. Usually they do not specify how many vaccines will come on each flight, but this time they anticipated that more than 500,000 arrive. Sources consulted by this newspaper say that this is the minimum amount, but that Aerolineas flight 1060 could bring up to 800,000.
A piece of information that is not known is the ratio between dose 1 and dose 2. In all previous shipments, the highest percentage was dose 1, the one that matters most because it allows more people to be immunized with at least one first dose.
* As is public, also this Sunday, very early, will be in Ezeiza the 864,000 Oxford / AstraZéneca vaccines provided by the Covax program of the World Health Organization. They are part of the nine million doses bought and paid for by Argentina.
If one takes into account that, according to the Public Vaccination Monitor of the Ministry of Health, a dose has already been applied to 5,500,000 people, that there are a million in the process of being applied and around 1,500,000 more arrive, Argentina could have immunized -at least with one dose- about 8,000,000 Argentines in the next ten days. It must be taken into account that after the application of the vaccine, it is necessary to wait about three weeks for the body to generate defenses against the virus, so the restrictions seem essential while progress in vaccination and immunization.
With this Sunday’s vaccines, Argentina will be close to having 20 percent of the population vaccinated, a figure similar to that of European countries, equal to that of Brazil, well above Russia or India. Nations of enormous economic power such as the United States, which prevents the delivery of vaccines from their country, have 38 percent of their population vaccinated with the first dose. That is why the speech of the opposition sounds sordid and, specifically, of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, stating that “the government failed to obtain vaccines.” The Alberto Fernández administration had a notable success in betting on Sputnik V, from the Gamaleya Institute, which ended up being a solid supplier of a vaccine that, according to scientists, is of the best quality. Even so, Together for Change was dedicated to criticizing and even criminally denouncing the government for poisoning.
At door
Argentina expects more vaccine arrivals before the end of the month, but in a world where getting doses is very difficult, departures can arrive a few days before or a few days later:
*President Alberto Fernández addressed a letter to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, asking him to intercede so that at least one million doses of Sinopharm arrive out of the two million already contracted. The version is that there will be a shipment of the Chinese vaccine before the 30th of this month.
*In the United States there are 900,000 doses of Oxford / AstraZéneca whose active element was manufactured in Argentina at the mAbxience plant in Garín. There is a version that the vaccines are blocked by the United States government, but the sources of the laboratory affirm that it is not like that and that the delay has to do with the quality control. The truth is that AstraZéneca, which is the producer of the vaccine, is silent and does not explain what is happening.
* The presidential adviser, Cecilia Nicolini, arrives this Sunday in Moscow to manage new shipments. The chances are great that one or two more planes will arrive before the end of the month.
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