A New Aerolineas Argentinas flight left this afternoon bound for China to bring in a shipment of Sinopharm vaccines, while the plane to Russia, which had been announced for this morning, finally will leave at dawn on Sunday in search of component 2 of Sputnik V.
“Today 12.50 the 3rd will take off. operation of @Aerolineas_AR to China of the 10 planned to bring more doses of Sinopharm to the country. As for today’s flight to Russia, it will finally leave on Sunday 3am. We continue to bring vaccines so that more Argentines can get vaccinated ”, announced through his Twitter account the head of Airlines, Pablo Ceriani.
This flight AR1074 to China is the thirty-second departure in search of vaccines and the third of the series of ten flights that the company confirmed for the month of July and that will bring 8 million doses of the vaccine manufactured by the China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp.
After taking off from Ezeiza International Airport, will make an intermediate stopover in Madrid, both on the way out and on the way back, and his return is scheduled for 19.10 on Monday.
Today 12.50 will take off the 3rd operation of @Aerolineas_AR to China of the 10 planned to bring the country more doses of Sinopharm. As for today’s flight to Russia, it will finally leave on Sunday 3am. We continue to bring vaccines so that more Argentines can get vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/beCEagKRGF
– Pablo Ceriani (@ceriani_pablo) July 10, 2021
“There are 8 million vaccines in a period of 15 days, a very large logistical effort that allows us to bring a very large number of doses and that will allow us to continue vaccinating at a good rate,” said Ceriani.
On the other hand, the flight that was due to leave this morning for Moscow was postponed and will leave at 3 am on Sunday. As planned, this flight will bring new doses of component 2 of Sputnik V to continue completing the vaccination schedules of the population throughout the territory.
More than 28 million vaccines
From the beginning of the pandemic until now, Airlines have completed 30 flights for the transport of vaccines, of which 9 were destined for Beijing and brought to the country 6,731,200 doses.
In addition, 21 flights were made to Moscow in which 11,263,375 doses of the vaccine produced by the Gamaleya Institute were transported, so that, in the total of operations carried out by the flag line, 17,994,575 doses were transferred. In addition, there were other flights with vaccines, such as the Covax system.
So far, a total of 28,383,730 doses have arrived in the country, of which 11,265,830 correspond to Sputnik V, (9,375,670 for component 1 and 1,890,160 for component 2); 7,536,000 to Sinopharm; 580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield, 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO), and 7,057,900 to those of AstraZeneca and Oxford whose active principle was produced in Argentina.
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