The Aerolineas flight with more than … has already landed in Ezeiza

A new shipment with 330 mil vacunas Sputnik V He arrived in the country this Friday on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight. These new doses, which correspond to the first component of the vaccine, will be destined to the inoculation of people over 70 years in the 24 jurisdictions of the country, while reaching three million doses applied throughout the national territory, according to the Public Vaccination Monitor.

Flight AR1061 of the flag airline arrived after 2 p.m. at Ezeiza International Airport, and is the seventh that travels to Moscow and returns with the Covid-19 vaccine from the Gamaleya Institute. With the 330 thousand doses this time – added to the more than 2.8 million that arrived in the six previous transfers– Argentina exceeds three million Sputnik V, and reaches a total number of 4,146,565 doses to immunize against the coronavirus.

“We are very happy for this seventh Aerolineas Argentinas flight” because it implies that “the flow does not stop,” said Pablo Ceriani, president of Aerolineas Argentinas, who received the plane together with the Undersecretary of Health Strategy of the Ministry of Health, Juan Manuel Castelli. In turn, the official stressed that the new doses “They will serve to immunize more than 300 thousand compatriots” and he assured that they will continue “working to be able to continue feeding this vaccination process that has been implemented”: “Every day, morning, afternoon and night, trying to carry out these operations,” he said.

Regarding the steps that were followed after the arrival of the vaccines, Castelli explained that “once the entire Customs process is done on the track, the vaccines are loaded directly to be transferred for distribution, according to how it has been done. established with all the ministers of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires “.

The Airbus 330-200 had left for the Russian capital just started on Thursday 18, at dawn, and with ten crew members. The flight was carried out directly in approximately 18 hours, which made it possible to expand the cold capacity of the containers and reduce the duration of the trip, by avoiding ship changes and waiting at airports. After spending six hours at the Sheremetyevo International Airport, he took off back to the country minutes after President Alberto Fernández spoke on the national network about how sanitary measures will continue regarding the pandemic, with the possibility of a “second wave” on the doorstep. and a complex situation worldwide, as in the region, especially on the northern border of the country.

The new doses of Sputnik V arrive in a context of “Global vaccine shortage” in which “only 18 countries have received 88 percent of the vaccines that have been distributed so far,” as explained by the President. The global delay that the laboratories present in the delivery of the corresponding doses finds reasons in production problems, logistics and lack of supplies that, added to the great demand and the pressure of international political and economic interests, generated non-compliance with the regulations. agreed dates around the world. And not only in the case of the Gamaleya Institute, but in all the vaccines against the coronavirus currently in circulation.

Meanwhile, Argentina is making progress on the largest vaccination plan in its history. And, according to the Public Vaccination Monitor, the online registry of the Ministry of Health, the three million doses inoculated in the country have already been exceeded: 2,445,509 people received the first dose, while 580,955 already have both components of the vaccine. The report also maintains that, of the total number of coronavirus vaccines available in the country, 3,846,565 doses were distributed in the 24 jurisdictions.

Regarding the next flight to Moscow in search of vaccines, and although there is the possibility that it will leave during this weekend to bring a new shipment of Sputnik V, from Aerolineas Argentinas they pointed to PageI12 that at the moment there is nothing confirmed. “These things are confirmed from one day to the next, or even within hours, depending on whether Moscow confirms availability,” the airline’s spokesmen explained. Meanwhile, they also assured, the logistics are ready so that the plane – or the planes – take off at the necessary time. In turn, an agreement is being worked on that will allow the arrival of three million doses of Sinopharm from China.

Like Minister Carla Vizzotti, Undersecretary Castelli took advantage of the arrival of the Aerolineas flight to point out that the possibility of “spacing the period” in the application of the two doses of vaccines to each patient is being analyzed, imitating the decision already it has been taken in other countries. The objective is to intensify the rate of vaccination in the short term and inoculate “as many people as possible in the shortest time possible.”

Report: Sofia Moure.

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