Argentina will receive this Monday a batch of 549,600 doses of AstraZeneca against covid-19 donated by Canada through the COVAX mechanism, the global initiative for equitable access to vaccines against the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The arrival of the new batch of AstraZeneca vaccines at the Ezeiza International Airport, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., through flight UC1101 of the LAN Cargo company, will allow to continue advancing with the Strategic Vaccination Plan that the national Government promotes throughout the country.
To receive this arrival, with which Argentina will exceed 68 million doses Since December, officials from the National Ministry of Health, the Canadian Embassy in Buenos Aires, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) will be present at the air terminal. ).
Between Friday and Saturday, 3,072,000 Sinopharm vaccines arrived in the country, to which was added a batch of 183,625 units of Sputnik V component 2 delivered yesterday by the Richmond Laboratory.
In addition, this Sunday a shipment of 200 thousand vaccines arrived from CanSino It will be used for the inoculation of populations with difficult access, such as homeless people, migrants, refugees and other dispersed groups.
According to the public vaccination monitor, until this afternoon 55,269,629 doses were distributed throughout the Argentine territory, while applications total 50,864,376. In turn, 29,448,013 people received at least one dose and 21,416,363 completed the scheme.
What is the Covax fund?
The Covax mechanism -or the Global Access Fund for covid-19 vaccines, as it is also known- is one of the tools promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Commission and France, to guarantee equitable access for all countries to a vaccine that works.
It is an agreement signed by at least 172 nations, which works as a joint understanding to distribute the doses on a planetary basis regardless of the economic resources of each country.
Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign, Argentina received 1,944,000 doses of AstraZeneca through this mechanism. The last shipment came from Spain that donated 842,400 vaccines to the country, which arrived last Thursday.
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