Both aircraft carried a limited crew due to the fact that, by order of the United States authorities, they had to be in advance at the destination of loading of the vaccines, to adequately adapt the holds, since the doses must be transported at a temperature between minus 15 and minus 50 degrees, although after being opened they can be stored at temperatures between 2 and 8 degrees.
With this arrival, Argentina will exceed 36 million doses of vaccines this weekend against him coronavirus received since the beginning of the immunization plan.
As we celebrate the delivery of vaccines by the United States, Alberto Fernandez, noted that “the pandemic is a warning and, at the same time, an opportunity to move towards more equitable, more inclusive and just societies”, and stressed that “this donation from the United States Government is a very important contribution that marks a path cooperation “, as officially reported. In addition, it was specified that This solidarity delivery of vaccines is the most numerous to a single country in the region by the United States.
This arrival was the consequence of the signing by the Executive Power, on July 3, of a DNU that enabled an agreement with the laboratory Moderna Inc. for supplying 20 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine or equivalent doses of the vaccine as a booster.
The coronavirus vaccine developed by the American biotechnology company Moderna was designed through the messenger RNA technology for the immune system to learn to repel part of the virus protein, and demonstrated a high rate of effectiveness among adolescents 12 to 17 years of age.
