Fernán Quirós confirmed that three laboratories refused to sell vaccines to the City

The Minister of Health of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), Fernan Quirós, confirmed in a television interview that the Buenos Aires government received negative responses from three laboratories before the attempt to acquire vaccines for the neighbors. As explained by the official, the firms argued that they have not yet fully complied with the deliveries to the nation states.

“From the first day that the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation said that we could procure the purchase, we related to all thevaccine manufacturers” class=”com-link” data-reactroot=””>vaccine manufacturers of the world. And the private companies that at that time had vaccines, which were three, answered that they had not yet been able to comply with the commitments with the nation states. It is a global policy of these companies”Quirós explained.

“We continue with other alternatives and we are working on them; for example, new vaccines that have completed Phase III, or nation states that have vaccine production. We study all the possibilities, for the medium and long term, because in the short term there is a certain flow of vaccines ”, said Quirós.

On the other hand, Quirós detailed the state monitoring that is carried out on people who receive doses at health posts, and confirmed that the pharmacovigilance system continues to work rigidly in CABA. On the adverse effects, he indicated: “There is nothing different from what had already been published; mild and short-term adverse effects are common with these vaccines”.

Regarding the projection for next week due to infections in the city, he said: “We are seeing a decrease in cases. We will be attentive to what happens that week, with the resultant of the restrictions. What happens between Monday and Thursday is very important, because it will represent what we are doing as citizens at this time ”.

Provinces

The administration of Juan Schiaretti added to Córdoba to the list of districts that, with the approval of their legislatures, will seek to obtain vaccines in parallel with those sent by the Nation. While the provincial Minister of Health, Diego Cardozo placeholder image, ensures that negotiations are progressing with several laboratories and that there are signed letters of intent, a bill entered the Legislature that will enable him to sign agreements.

Córdoba thus joins Jujuy, where the governor Gerardo Morales has the powers to manage the purchase of vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, with the aim of acquiring one million doses.

Since last year there are governors who have entered into dialogue with laboratories (Land of Fire has a signed letter of intent with Russia). In the case of Córdoba, which has letters of intent signed with several vaccine producers, there is the intention to manage en bloc with Santa Fe and Entre Ríos.

On San JuanSergio Uñac said in mid-April that he had advanced negotiations with two laboratories for the purchase of 1.6 million doses. There was, later, no more news.

Vaccines

Argentina will exceed the 20 million vaccines against the coronavirus received since the beginning of the pandemic in the coming days, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti reported this Wednesday, while a new flight of Argentinian airlines in search of another shipment of Sputnik V doses. The AA flight that left for the Russian Federation landed this Wednesday and will return to Ezeiza on Thursday afternoon with 800,000 doses of component 1 of the Sputnik V vaccine.

Meanwhile, confirmation of the departure this week of a second flight that will bring 100,000 doses of component 1 and 400,000 doses of component 2 is expected, which will add up to a total of 1.3 million doses of the drug produced by the institute. Gamaleya. More than ten million people were immunized with at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Argentina, according to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor of the Ministry of Health published this Wednesday.

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