Argentina will receive 200,000 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory CanSino Biologics to immunize the homeless, migrants and refugees.
The shipment will arrive at Ezeiza International Airport on Tuesday on a Qatar Airways company flight within the framework of the vaccination plan that has reached nearly 57.5 million doses of different vaccines.
“The next objective is to reach those populations with difficult access, such as people living on the streets, migrants, refugees and other dispersed groups,” said a statement from the presidency on Monday, which stated that “when administered in a single dose “The Chinese inoculant manages to” reduce logistical barriers. “
Argentina had already received 200,000 doses of CanSino in August, the first batch of a contract for 5.4 million doses that is expected to be shipped during the year.
Another Latin American country that uses the CanSino immunizer is Mexico, where questions arose because the Chinese laboratory itself recommended in August to apply a booster six months after receiving the first dose after a study carried out by the company in that country.
Since December 2020, Argentina has also used Russian immunizers Sputnik V and from the AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Moderna laboratories in its vaccination campaign.
According to official data, about 28.3 million people received the first dose of a vaccine and about 16.3 million have two applications out of a total population of more than 45 million.
The Argentine government has accelerated the vaccination that months ago passed slowly due to the fear that the Delta variant would spread en masse in the country. So far this variant has been detected in some provinces without being “predominant”, according to the authorities.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Argentina, more than 5.2 million cases of the new coronavirus and more than 112,500 deaths have been registered, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Science and Systems Engineering.
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