On Tuesday, March 30, another shipment landed from Russia with 250,000 doses of component 1 and 50,000 doses of component 2 of the Sputnik V vaccine.
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Almost 6.8 million vaccines against the coronavirus is what Argentina has acquired in total since December with the arrival, this week, of more than one and a half million doses that arrived in the country in four air shipments.
Meanwhile, the eleventh Aerolneas Argentinas flight sent to Russia to bring a new shipment of Sputnik V vaccines against the coronavirus travels to Argentina and is expected to land at Ezeiza airport this Sunday around 2 p.m.
Under the flight number AR1069, the Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GIF, the plane took off at 8:43 p.m. Argentina time-02:43 local time-, from Sheremtievo International Airport, after having remained in Russian lands since Wednesday. .
The plane was expected to stay there for about five hours to carry out the vaccine loading work, but a logistical adjustment forced the flight to be rescheduled.
The reason for the wait was that an attempt was made to add as many doses as possible to the aircraft’s holds, according to sources from the flag company.
On Sunday, March 28, 218,400 doses from the AstraZeneca laboratory arrived on a commercial flight of the Dutch airline KLM, which were delivered to the country through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In turn, on Tuesday, March 30, another shipment landed from Russia with 250,000 doses of component 1 and 50,000 doses of component 2 of the Sputnik V vaccine.
Aerolneas Argentinas has so far transported 5,873,000 vaccines”
Meanwhile, on Thursday, April 1, Aerolneas Argentinas flight AR1051, from Beijing, capital of the People’s Republic of China, landed at Ezeiza International Airport with a load of one million vaccines from Sinopharm.
These three shipments total 1,518,400 doses, with which the number of doses that arrived in the country since the trips to bring vaccines began, reaches the figure of 6,768,755.
March was the record month of reception
In turn, March was the month with the highest number of vaccines received, since 2,246,715 doses arrived in the country last month.
On March 2, an Aerolneas Argentina flight arrived from Russia with 520,955 applications of the first component of Sputnik V and 211,360 of the second component.
Then, between 19 and 26, one million doses of the first component and 200 thousand of the second of the vaccine developed by the Russian Gamaleya Institute were received, to which are added those received on days 28 and 30.
During the month of March, Argentina received the highest number of doses since the beginning of the pandemic
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Previous shipments
Previously, Argentina had received another seven shipments of vaccines: on December 24, 2020, 300,150 first components of Sputnik V arrived; on January 16, 300 thousand second components, and on January 28, another 220 thousand doses of the same vaccine, divided equally between both components.
Meanwhile, on February 12, another 400,690 first applications of Sputnik V and on February 17, 580 thousand Covishield units manufactured in India, which arrived on a Qatar Airways flight.
On February 25, 904 thousand Sinopharm arrived, and on February 28 another shipment of Sputnik V with 328,400 applications of the first component and 188,800 of the second, and 96 thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China, in another KLM trip.
The Strategic Role of the Flag Airline
Except for those two flights by KLM and another by Qatar Airways, the rest of the doses arrived on board Aerolneas Argentinas planes, which since December has been carrying out special operations with the aim of bringing vaccines to the country.
In the 10 flights completed to and from the Russian Federation, 3,969,0000 doses prepared by the Gamaleya Institute were brought.
In addition, the 904,000 doses of Sinopharm arrived on the first Aerolneas Argentinas flight to the People’s Republic of China on February 25 and added to the one that arrived on Thursday, so far, the amount of vaccines that arrived in the country on Aerolneas Argentinas flights is of 5,873,000.
Regarding the trips made by Aerolneas Argentinas, the head of the flag company, Pablo Ceriani, emphasized that it is “one more evidence of the strategic role of our flag airline, which allows the country to have a rapid response to every logistical need”.
And he added: “The entire Aerolneas team is committed to fulfilling this fundamental logistical task against Covid-19.”
On Thursday, April 1, Aerolneas Argentinas flight AR1051 landed at the Ezeiza International Airport with a load of one million vaccines.
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Pablo Ceriani: “the pride of integrating a logistics chain”
“In a few days, several concatenated operations were confirmed, which is very positive because it translates into more people who will be protected. We are proud to be part of the logistics chain that makes it possible,” said Ceriani.
Each one of the shipments that arrives in the country goes through a process of customs clearance, reception, thermal control, counting, fractionation and conditioning, to then be distributed to the 24 jurisdictions.
Negotiations with India and Cuba without ruling out Pfizer
Presidential adviser Cecilia Nicolini pointed out that within the “multivaccine strategy” decided by President Alberto Fernández to face the coronavirus pandemic, negotiations with India and Cuba were included, and did not rule out the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
“As long as the interests of Argentines are represented,” Nicolini clarified in radio statements, in which he announced that Argentina “talks to all” drug producers against the coronavirus, in a context of limitations on access to vaccines.
A flag airline allows the country to have a quick response to every logistical need.
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Finally, Nicolini confirmed that the costs of all the laboratories are “similar” and that what Argentina pays “is within the framework” of what happens in the rest of the countries.
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