Except for two flights from KLM and another from Qatar Airways, the rest of the doses arrived on board Aerolneas Argentinas planes:
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With the arrival of a new shipment of vaccines from Russia, Argentina this Sunday will exceed the 7 million doses received to fight the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Government, which indicated that this week the country will have already received just over 2 million of vaccines.
Aerolneas Argentinas flight AR1069 from Moscow, which brings 497,745 doses of Sputnik V component 1, will be landing at Ezeiza airport Around 1:25 p.m. and with this game, 2,015,745 doses received this week will be reached.
On Sunday, March 28, 218,400 doses from the AstraZeneca laboratory arrived on a commercial flight of the Dutch airline KLM, which were delivered to the country through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In turn, on Tuesday, March 30, another shipment landed from Russia with 250,000 doses of component 1 and 50,000 doses of component 2 of the Sputnik V vaccine.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, April 1, Aerolneas Argentinas flight AR1051, from Beijing, capital of the People’s Republic of China, landed at Ezeiza International Airport with a load of one million vaccines from Sinopharm.
With the 497,745 doses of Sputnik V that will arrive this noon, and since the beginning of the immunization process promoted by the Government, Argentina will have received a total of 7,266,500 doses.
March was the record month of reception
March was the month with the highest number of vaccines received, since 2,246,715 doses arrived in the country during that month.
On March 2, an Aerolneas Argentina flight arrived from Russia with 520,955 applications of the first component of Sputnik V and 211,360 of the second component.
Then, between 19 and 26, one million doses of the first component and 200 thousand of the second of the vaccine developed by the Russian Gamaleya Institute were received, to which are added those received on days 28 and 30.
Vizzotti and Rossi supervise the unloading of vaccines in Ezeiza.
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Previous shipments
Previously, Argentina had received another seven shipments of vaccines: on December 24, 2020, 300,150 first components of Sputnik V arrived; on January 16, 300 thousand second components, and on January 28, another 220 thousand doses of the same vaccine, divided equally between both components.
Meanwhile, on February 12, another 400,690 first applications of Sputnik V and on February 17, 580 thousand Covishield units manufactured in India, which arrived on a Qatar Airways flight.
On February 25, 904 thousand Sinopharm arrived, and on February 28 another shipment of Sputnik V with 328,400 applications of the first component and 188,800 of the second, and 96 thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China, in another KLM trip.
The Strategic Role of the Flag Airline
Except for those two flights by KLM and another by Qatar Airways, the rest of the doses arrived on board Aerolneas Argentinas planes, which since December has been carrying out special operations with the aim of bringing vaccines to the country.
This week the country will have already received more than 2 million vaccines.
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In the 10 flights completed to and from the Russian Federation, 3,969,0000 doses prepared by the Gamaleya Institute were brought.
In addition, the 904,000 doses of Sinopharm arrived on the first Aerolneas Argentinas flight to the People’s Republic of China on February 25 and added to the one that arrived on Thursday, so far, the amount of vaccines that arrived in the country on Aerolneas Argentinas flights is of 5,873,000.
Regarding the trips made by Aerolneas Argentinas, the head of the flag company, Pablo Ceriani, emphasized that it is “one more evidence of the strategic role of our flag airline, which allows the country to have a rapid response to every logistical need”.
And he added: “The entire Aerolneas team is committed to fulfilling this fundamental logistical task against Covid-19.”
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