Vizzotti and Ceriani received the vaccines at the Ezeiza airport.
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A new Aerolneas Argentinas flight from Moscow arrived in the country this Sunday with almost 500,000 Sputnik V vaccines, which exceeded 7 million doses to fight the coronavirus.
Aerolneas Argentinas flight AR1069, which transported 497,745 doses of Sputnik V component 1, landed in Ezeiza at 1:25 p.m. and with this game 2,015,745 doses will be reached this week.
The flight was received by the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and the head of the flag company, Pablo Ceriani.
“We continue to receive doses of vaccines, to almost reach 7.3 million and continue with the distribution, that is being done permanently to the 24 jurisdictions, with the fundamental objective of continuing to cover in this instance the population that is most at risk of having complications, “Vizzotti told reporters at the airport.
He added that “at this moment, by consensus with all jurisdictions, we are vaccinating those over 60 years of age and working hard so that, as soon as possible, we can vaccinate them so that, even if the number of cases increases, even if it is viral circulation, we can reduce mortality “.
The distribution
Regarding new operations, the official pointed out that “we are working permanently to continue receiving flights, and when we have the information from the Russian Federation or the People’s Republic of China, they have availability of doses, they will immediately articulate with Airlines and all the logistics areas to be able to advance with the flight to bring doses “.
“The same as when we have one of the two Covax available, they also notify us and we generate the action of transferring the doses,” he added.
Vizzotti recalled that the doses received already reach almost 7.3 million.
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The last shipments
Last Sunday 218,400 doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines arrived of the Covax mechanism; on Tuesday, 300,000 Sputnik V, of which 250,000 belonged to component 1 and 50,000 to component 2; and Thursday, a million doses of Sinopharm.
With the 497,745 doses of Sputnik V that will arrive this Sunday, and since the beginning of the immunization process promoted by the Government, Argentina will have received a total of 7,266,500 doses so far.
According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor of the Ministry of Health, Until Sunday morning, 4,234,505 doses were applied, of which 3,550,166 correspond to the first dose, and 684,339 to the second.
In addition, 5,817,845 doses are already distributed and this Saturday 909,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine began to be transported to all the country’s provinces.
The flight was carried out directly, without stopovers.
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(S) The flight (s)
Under flight number AR1069, Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GIF, the plane landed in Ezeiza after leaving last night, at 8:43 p.m. Argentine time-2:43 a.m. local time-, from Sheremtievo international airport, where it had been arrived last Wednesday.
The plane was expected to stay there for about five hours to carry out the vaccine loading work, but a logistical problem forced the flight to be rescheduled, in order to add as many doses as possible to the aircraft’s holds. , according to sources from the airline.
Aerolneas flight AR1069 transported 497,745 doses of component 1.
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“The logistical effort that is made to get the flights in a matter of hours can be done because there is an airline put at the service of the Argentines. Each plane that arrives with vaccines allows continuity to the vaccination plan drawn up by the national government”, Ceriani pointed out.
The flight was carried out directly, without stopovers, in the aircraft that was specially reformed for the transport of cargo and is in command of 10 crew members, including pilots and co-pilots, who are joined by technical, maintenance and crew members. cabins, up to a total of 20 people.
The other flights
Aerolneas Argentinas has been carrying out special operations since December with the aim of bringing vaccines to the country.
On December 24, the first flight from Moscow arrived with 300,000 doses; on January 16 another 300,000 doses arrived on the second flight. The third flight took place on January 28, bringing 220,000 doses to our country and 20,000 that were sent to Bolivia; while on February 12 came the fourth service with 400,000 doses.
Later, on February 28, the fifth flight brought 517,500 doses and a day later, on March 1, the sixth arrived with 732,500 doses. On March 19, 330,000 doses arrived on the seventh flight and three days later, on March 22, 500,000 doses arrived in what was the eighth flight to the Russian capital.
In the last few days, on March 27, 370,000 doses arrived in the ninth service, on March 30, 300,000 doses arrived in the tenth flight and today 497,745 doses arrived in the eleventh flight, totaling 4,467,745 doses arriving from Russia so far.
In addition, two flights arrived from China with doses of Sinopharm vaccines, the first on February 25, with 904,000 doses and the remaining on April 1 with 1,000,000 doses.
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