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Argentina will receive this Monday more than a million vaccines from the AstraZeneca laboratory coming from USA to add to the Vaccination Plan against the coronavirus, in addition to a shipment of doses of Sinopharm that will be transferred on a special Aerolneas Argentinas flight from China, and to which another commercial flight of Qatar Airways will also be added.
The shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines for a total of 1,134,000 doses, whose completion was carried out at the AMRI plant in Albuquerque, arriving at Ezeiza International Airport at 9.50 am on the LATAM Cargo Colombia cargo flight UC1407.
With that shipment, the country will have received 21,806,145 doses of the different vaccines against Covid-19 since last December, when the national government launched the Strategic Vaccination Plan against the coronavirus.
To and from China
Also, between this Monday and Wednesday, another two million doses of the Sinopharm laboratory vaccine will arrive from China, transported on two special flights of Aerolneas Argentinas and another commercial flight of Qatar Airways.
Between Monday and Tuesday, two Aerolneas Argentinas flights arrive from China with Sinopharm.
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The second of the two Aerolneas Argentinas flights that will transport from China the vacunas Sinopharm It left this Sunday at noon from the Ezeiza international airport, while the first one, which left yesterday, has already taken off back from Beijing and is scheduled to arrive in Argentina this Monday afternoon.
The Airbus 330-200 aircraft, registration LV-GHQ, under the number AR1066, decol at 1:18 p.m. and, after making a technical stopover in Madrid for refueling, arrive in Beijing at 0.15 on Tuesday (local time in China, 13:15 on Monday in Argentina).
It is foreseen that the plane stays on Chinese soil until 3.15 (local time, 4:15 p.m. on Sunday in Argentina), and start the return with a refueling stopover at the Barajas airport, to arrive at the Ezeiza airport at 7:10 p.m. on Monday 21.
Meanwhile, the first of the flights landed in Beijing at 1:15 p.m. from our country, at 0.15 in China, and after staying for four hours in eastern lands, he began his return at 4:47 in our country: he is scheduled to return this Monday around 19, after the technical stopover at Madrid.
“With these flights, we carried out 26 operations and exceeded 15 million transported doses“, said the president of Aerolneas Argentinas, Pablo Ceriani, who said that this is” another excellent news that will allow us to continue with the largest vaccination campaign and that more Argentines and Argentines can get vaccinated. We are fulfilling a fundamental task when the country needs it most, “he added.
As Ceriani told the press, “with these two flights we continue to fuel the vaccination campaign and the hope of being able to get out of this unprecedented health crisis soon. We are proud to be able to play such an important role when the country needs it most.”
As of Saturday, Argentina had 20,615,390 doses of vaccines distributed among the 24 jurisdictions.
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Flights to China
It’s about the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth vaccine transfer operation carried out by the company, and with these seven missions to Beijing will be completed.
The Sinopharm vaccine is transported at a temperature between 2 and 8 degrees above zero, in containers called “envirotainers” with active temperature control and in 3-dose vials.
Furthermore, this type of cargo, strictly indicated by the laboratory, can only be transferred in the hold of the aircraft.
Aerolneas Argentinas has completed a total of five flights to the People’s Republic of China, in which 3,659,200 vaccines produced by the China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp.
Argentina receives 1,134,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine this Monday
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Flights to Russia
In addition, they have been made so far 19 flights to Moscow, in which they were transported 9,473,290 dosesTherefore, in 24 operations carried out, a total of 13,132,490 doses were brought.
Meanwhile, for this week it is also expected that new flights to Moscow looking for vaccine shipments Sputnik V.
The vaccination plan
Until yesterday Argentina had 20,615,390 doses of vaccines distributed among the 24 jurisdictions, of which 17,837,121 have already been applied, according to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor.
According to official records, the national vaccination plan advanced “steadily” last week among those under 60 years of age, while of those over that age are already “almost 90 percent” immunized throughout the country, less with a first dose.
The week from May 31 to June 6 was the one with the most vaccinated.
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Meanwhile, 68 percent of people between 55 and 59 years start your vaccination schedule, as well as 59 percent of those between 50 and 54 years old and 44 percent of those between 45 and 49 years old.
Within the framework of the Strategic Vaccination Plan against coronavirus, the greatest in history, in the last month they were applied throughout the country 7,643,753 doses, with a daily average of 239,575 inoculations, while in that period 7,979,000 vaccines arrived in Argentina, according to data from the National Ministry of Health that span from May 18 to June 18.
In this sense, the week from May 31 to June 6 was the one with the most vaccinated, with 2,078,867 people, with a daily average of 296,981. Meanwhile, from May 18 to 23 there were 956,100 inoculated, with an average of 159,350 per day; from May 24 to 30 there were 1,107,829, with 158,261 newspapers; from June 7 to 13 there were 2,045,879, with an average of 292,268; and from June 14 to 18, 1,455,078 people were vaccinated, which meant 291,016 per day.
The country will have received 21,806,145 doses of the different vaccines against Covid-19.
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One of the most important results of the escalation of vaccination is to have made substantial progress with those vaccinated over 60 years of age, since “almost 90 percent of these people have the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19,” he noted. the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti.
Regarding the doses arrived in the country in the last month, the week from May 31 to June 6 was also the one with the highest quantity received: a total of 2,966,750, of which 2,148,600 were AstraZeneca and 818,150 Sputnik V component 1.
Meanwhile, from May 18 to 23, 204,000 doses of the Covax system arrived; from May 24 to 30, 2,581,200 arrived (1,080.00 Sputnik V between components 1 and 2; 843,600 AstraZeneca and 657,600 Covax); from June 7 to 13 there were 1,292,850 arrivals (481,850 Sputnik V components 1 and 2; and 811,000 AstraZeneca); and finally from June 14 to 18, 934,200 AstraZeneca arrived.
In addition, according to data presented by the Ministry of Health, the fatality from Covid-19 decreased compared to last year: in 2020 it was 2.8% and so far in 2021 it is 1.4%. According to age groups, in those under 60 years of age, the fatality rate fell from 0.6% in 2020 and 0.4% in 2021. In those over 60 years of age it decreased from 15.9% to 8.4% this year.
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