“There is no coronavirus vaccine in the refrigerator.” Photo Gustavo Amarelle.
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The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, affirmed this Tuesday that Argentina “It is very close to reaching 50 million of doses of coronavirus vaccines “received since the start of the vaccination plan, from shipments that will arrive in the next few days, and defended the distribution process throughout the country, by ensuring that” there is no vaccine in the country. refrigerator”.
“We are arriving with 1.4 million doses from Moscow: with 400,000 corresponding to component 1 and 250,000 to component 2 and 500 liters of the active substance that go directly for its manufacture to the local laboratory in Richmond, “he said in statements to the press at the Ezeiza airport.
I also announce that “By the end of this week, we will be receiving 300 thousand doses of component 2 from Richmond and possibly by the beginning of the other, when it’s quality control, another 300,000. “
“Besides we have yet to receive another 2.2 million doses of AstraZeneca, between the end of this week and the beginning of the next and two more arrivals from Sinopharm of around 768 thousand and 680 thousand doses each, “he added.
400,000 doses arrive from Russia for component 1 and 250,000 for component 2. Photo Gustavo Amarelle.
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In this way, he pointed out that “it continues to escalate, until now we have exceeded 47.5 million doses and with this number of doses we are very close to the 50 million doses received to continue advancing with vaccination.”
On the other hand, he defended the distribution process throughout the country, ratified that “There is no vaccine against the coronavirus in the refrigerator” and said that the distribution process is “sustained when there are large doses of revenue.”
“It is a process of great complexity. It draws my attention that it is not understood, it seems that it was a strategy to say that vaccines are in the refrigerator when they are not. Vaccines are in constant movement since they arrive in the country and they are distributed in the provinces, “he remarked.
The Aerolneas Argentinas flight that traveled to Moscow in search of more doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, landed at 9.43 at the Ezeiza international airport. Photo Gustavo Amarelle.
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Vizzotti made statements to the press when he arrived at Ezeiza airport this morning, with a shipment of 650,000 doses of Sputnik vaccine.
The Aerolneas Argentinas flight that traveled to Moscow in search of more doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, landed at 9.43 at the Ezeiza international airport.
The Airbus 330-200 aircraft, registration LV-GIF, under the number AR1065, brought 650,000 doses in its warehouses, 400,000 corresponding to component 1 and 250,000 to component 2.
At the air terminal, the head of the sanitary portfolio gave a press conference in which she offered details of the meetings she had with members of the Gamaleya Institute of Russia and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
LIVE | Press conference of Minister Carla Vizzotti arriving from Russia on a flight that also brought 400,000 component 1 vaccines and 250,000 component 2 of Sputnik V https://t.co/ewRTHSE131
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