Emilia vexler
01/26/2021 17:55
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/26/2021 5:59 PM
Argentina is going to look for Sputnik V to Moscow on special Aerolineas Argentinas flights.
The uncertainty due to the delays in the delivery of the third batch of Russian vaccines filled social networks with phrases such as "the most expensive freight in the world", which haunt the question about why
international carriers
are not used
to supply the country with the doses .
DHL, the world's largest parcel delivery company, plays a key role in the distribution of coronavirus vaccines worldwide.
On December 15, 2020, it unfolded to its full potential when it began air shipment and ground distribution of
Pfizer and Moderna
doses
in Israel,
a country that managed to vaccinate 2 million people in three weeks.
And today more than 10 European countries use this German carrier service to supply vaccines, with 50 express cargo flights that allow deliveries to be fulfilled within 24 hours.
The controversy rose when the Aerolineas Argentinas plane that was supposed to leave for Russia on Sunday to transport the cargo, never took off.
"It will be rescheduled as soon as possible once we have the confirmation of all the actors that participate in the logistics chain that allows the transfer of vaccines," Pablo Ceriani, president of the flag airline, had reported on his Twitter account. .
From Aerolineas Argentinas they explain to
Clarín
details of why vaccines are brought in this way and not, for example, through carriers.
"The request that this be so is from the Government. We do not handle airplanes that are only cargo. With these resources that we have, these passenger airplanes, they ask us to make the flights. In the warehouse we can transport up to 600 thousand vaccines and we can modify the plane to move more in the cabin ", they clarify.
The plane is an Airbus A330-200 that, although on this flight it will not undergo the modifications made in the trips to China to bring medical supplies, it could carry up to 1 million vaccines in the cabin if the seating arrangement were intervened .
The Ministry of Health reported that the reasons for the delay were due to logistics issues.
"This type of operation requires coordinated work to maintain safety in each of the stages, and until each and every one of them is confirmed, it is not possible to start with the one that corresponds to us: the cargo flight" Ceriani explained about the delays.
In addition to Europe, DHL also supplies vaccines to two countries in our region: Chile and Mexico (both from Pfizer).
Not to Argentina.
This happens with the Sputnik vaccines, the only ones that reach the country and are distributed in trucks from Andreani
.
The distribution of Pfizer doses, for example, in Europe, is totally different.
Pfizer has its largest manufacturing plant in Belgium and even uses its own trucks, in the sense that it specially hired and plotted them with the laboratory's brand, so that they reach France, Holland and Germany, among other countries.
In Spain, for example, the Army was ordered to distribute the vaccines brought by Pfizer with its trucks from a warehouse that were collected under the ultra-cold necessary for their conservation.
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