Vaccination, at a sustained rate (Photo: Diego Araoz).
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The presidential advisor Cecilia Nicolini said this Sunday that Argentina It’s one of the first “17 countries in the world” in the amount of vaccines against the coronavirus applied and signaled that “component 2 of Sputnik V will continue to arrive” from Russia.
“Argentina is the country number 17 in the world that more quantity of doses is applying. It means that the vaccination campaign is very successful and that we have to continue advancing in the face of the Delta variant, but with an encouraging outlook, “Nicolini said on Radio 10.
With respect to component 2 of Sputnik V, the official assures that “will keep coming of the Russian Federation “and that the Richmond laboratory is making progress in its production.
In addition, he anticipated that in the next few days they will have “the release and approval of the first batches of component 2 for distribution.”
In August we will have more than 3 million second doses of @sputnikvaccine produced in @richmond_lab. The first 150 thousand will begin to be distributed this week.
That Argentines complete their vaccination schedule is our priority.#ArgentinaTeCuida ????????❤️
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“We are working so that component 2 and component 1 vaccines arrive to continue completing the agreement we signed with the Russian Federation for 30 million doses,” Nicolini added.
The presidential adviser also asserted that “the studies of interchangeability will be one more element in the strategy to complete the vaccination schedules “.
Regarding the Pfizer vaccine, he estimated that they will arrive in the next month: “We are working to establish a delivery schedule that can be met, that meets all the necessary conditions and we hope that they can begin to arrive in September and complete the 20 million before the end of the year. “
“Argentina is the 17th country in the world that is applying the highest number of doses. It means that the vaccination campaign is very successful and that we have to continue advancing in the face of the Delta variant, but with an encouraging outlook””
Cecilia Nicolini
Regarding the negotiations with other laboratories, he maintained that the Government is “in dialogue” with several, including Janssen.
Regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine, he said that “regularly they will be arriving” those that were produced in conjunction with Mexico and pointed out that the arrival of Cansino will be confirmed in the next few days.
“We have a very positive outlook. You can see not only adults, but also young people who are receiving their second dose,” and that shows “the exit door to this pandemic,” said Nicolini.
But at the same time he asked to continue respecting preventive measures: “It is very important to continue with maximum care, because we are seeing the Delta variant in different countries” which, although it has low “lethality”, is “highly contagious.”
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