Argentina begins to close the gap created by the lack of Sputnik V, dose 2, with a rhythm of more than 200,000 people a day, only in the Province of Buenos Aires and the City of Buenos Aires. The vaccination of those who received the first dose in April and early May is being completed, so that the distance between doses is decreasing, little by little, from 100 days to 75. In the Buenos Aires district it is even given the second dose to people who received the first 60 days ago, taking into account previous illnesses. In parallel, this Wednesday the first flight of a series of ten leaves to China. The schedule is behind schedule because contagions from the Delta variant appeared in the Asian giant and there are new restrictions on air traffic. Eight million doses are expected which, in large part, will be used to deliver 2 doses to those who received 1 of the same vaccine. Also this week the authorization of the Gamaleya Institute of 800,000 Sputnik V doses, doses 2, completed in Argentina is expected. On Friday, from Moscow, 150,000 of those 800,000 were given the go-ahead, meaning that more vaccines are already available.
As Minister Carla Vizzotti had announced, August is the month in which it is aimed to complete the vaccination of 60 percent of all those over 50 years of the country. The process is advancing rapidly and in the two districts the gap caused by the delay in Russia in the production of the second dose is beginning to close.
- In the Province of Buenos Aires, 180,000 shifts are sent every day and, in addition, so-called spontaneous people continue to go to the vaccinations, people who never registered and did not receive dose 1. In total, about 190,000 people are vaccinated daily.
- The rate of dose 2 is very dissimilar. Vaccination is now being completed for people who received dose 1 of Sputnik V in May, 60 days ago, but most are still from April.
- In CABA, the second component is being supplied to people who received the first from Sputnik V between 75 and 100 days ago. In other words, little by little, the vaccination of the porteños is completed with doses on April 1 and May.
How vaccination schedules are completed
To solve the delays, three ways were used: the combination of vaccines; the doses that came from Moscow and, for now, few, the doses finished by the Richmond Laboratory in Argentina. To this week, the Gamaleya Institute would release a total of 800,000 doses 2 more, a part of which -150,000- were authorized last Friday, according to the exclusive information that Página / 12 was able to collect.
All this is what explains that Argentina has already applied 10,200,000 doses 2 and that it should have no difficulty in achieving the goal of 60 percent of those over 50 with full vaccination. The Restriction measures with respect to foreigners have so far ensured that the Delta variant has not had a strong impact and that is why the numbers of infections continue to decrease. This last data is of magnitude: not many countries have managed to reduce cases in the middle of winter, the season in which respiratory viruses such as covid spread.
How the covid vaccination continues this week
- AstraZeneca Dose 2 (within 60 days of the first); doses 2 of Sinopharm (a little over 21 days), Modern North American vaccine, used as the second component, and doses 2 of Sputnik (said, between 75 and 100 days) that arrived from Moscow last week. All those vaccines intended to complete the vaccination.
- Although 80 percent of those over 18 have already been vaccinated with at least one dose, there are still people who receive dose 1, both Sinopharm and AstraZeneca and even Sputnik 1, of which almost one was released. million doses completed at Richmond Laboratory.
- Adolescents from 12 to 17 years old, with previous illnesses, with the Moderna vaccine.
Flights to China in search of Sinopharm vaccines
This Wednesday the first of the Aerolineas Argentinas flights in August leaves for Beijing, bringing a total of eight million doses of Sinopharm. A large part of those vaccines will be destined for second doses, that is, to complete the eight million that were applied in July.
The flights are delayed because new infections have appeared in China and there are restrictions on the arrival of planes and additional precautionary measures because the Beijing authorities consider that the infections come from abroad. Flights are being rescheduled, but the idea is that shipments can be completed in three weeks.
New Astra-Zeneca Games
Regarding the Oxford / AstraZeneca – already authorized as second doses of Sputnik – new games are expected. The British laboratory promised 3,500,000 doses in August and so far only 530,000 have arrived from Albuquerque, where the production started in Argentina by the mAbxience Laboratory is completed.
Although the opposition focused on Spuntik, the delays are for all vaccines. The alliance of non-governmental organizations known as Oxfam, maintains that the laboratories Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson privileged the rich countries and sold them no less than 90 percent of their production, leaving them with price premiums of 41,000 million dollars. According to Oxfam calculations, the cost of the vaccines is around $ 1.20, and the laboratories sold them at 24 times their production value. And this concentration of vaccines in the rich countries means that the delays in the provision of the other nations are repeated. Even so, Argentina already has the same number of vaccinated with one dose as the United States and move forward quickly with the application of the second component.
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