aFor Riyadh – Direct: President Alberto Fernandez, President of the Argentine Republic, explained that the Corona pandemic exposed the weaknesses of health systems around the world, and represented a unique opportunity to redefine the value of solidarity in societies.
In his speech during the event accompanying the G20 leaders’ summit on pandemic preparedness and response, the Argentine President said: “In Argentina we have worked on a comprehensive approach that puts people’s lives first by implementing early and timely health, social and economic measures, which made it possible to increase the capacity of the system. In all governorates, where 12 model hospitals were built in record time and we established the National Equity Fund to ensure comprehensive coverage for the entire population, in addition to applying a joint multi-sector approach to increase production capacities and re-convert part of the industry to produce personal protective equipment.
The President of the Argentine Republic affirmed that his country maintains a strong commitment to any regional and global initiative aimed at facilitating universal access to medicines, treatments and vaccines and ensuring access to these global public goods, as national research on treatment such as hyperimmunity, use of convalescent plasma, use of saliva to replace swabs and serological testing has been strengthened. It allows for the quantification of antibodies among other things, as Argentina is participating in the WHO study for therapies, as it has actively participated in the covax mechanism for your COVID-19 access accelerator tool (ACT-A).
He revealed that an advance payment has been paid to purchase 9 million vaccine doses to cover 10% of the population in parallel, and concurrently with the development of the third phase of the clinical trial of three candidate vaccines in Argentina and the production of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, which will be distributed urgently from 150 to 250 million doses. To Latin American countries.
He indicated the importance of cooperation and solidarity as the two main elements to combat the Corona epidemic, and that this battle is not just a task for governments, but rather the responsibility of the international community, and requires the expectation of a global solidarity pact.
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