11/03/2020 11:54
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/03/2020 11:58
The day after President Alberto Fernández announced that Argentina will buy the
Russian Sputnik V vaccine
to combat the coronavirus, the Government gave some details of how the application of the first 25 million doses will be and to whom they will be destined.
They were the Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, and the political scientist and adviser to the president, Cecilia Nicolini, who announced that the vaccine will be free access and that the application, as expected, will begin in the essential personnel and groups of risk.
Both traveled to Russia days ago to advance the agreement.
"The distribution of the vaccine will be equitable and with a federal vision; the campaign
will prioritize the population at risk and health and security personnel,
" Nicolini said.
He also announced that "the vaccination campaign will take a while and will probably be the largest in Argentine history; we will need several months to implement it and in that sense we will be working with the vaccines that may appear to those that we have. access".
The purchase agreement is for 25 million doses, which will allow vaccinating about 12.5 million people, since after the first application, at 21 days, a second is applied.
"
The application will be free to access for the entire population
. Each vaccine costs USD19.90 and progress is being made on the last details depending on the amount that can be purchased," Nicolini said in radio statements.
Carla Vizzotti, the official of the Ministry of Health who traveled to Russia.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
For his part, Vizzotti stressed that "all the countries in the world are signing contracts with the most advanced vaccines, to ensure that if they advance the steps required to guarantee safety and efficacy, they can count on this vaccine; What happens with the Russian vaccine is what happens with all vaccines. "
The Ministry of Health official also denied that the trip to Russia was "secret" and stressed that they maintain contacts with all vaccine developers.
"The contact we had with the Russian Embassy needed to define some specific technical and logistical issues, so the president decided that we should travel to have this information first hand," he explained.
Lisandro Bonelli, the Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Health, also spoke about the issue, who confirmed that the
"vaccine will be mandatory
": "Not only because it cares for people's individual lives, but also for society as a whole; a person who does not The vaccine creates risk for the rest of society, "he said.
On Monday, Alberto Fernández confirmed that Argentina will buy 25 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus between December and the first half of January.
They would be in a position to give us 10 million of each of the two doses.
We can have them here in December and in the first days of January we could have, as they tell me, 15 million more doses, "the president explained in an interview with the Russian news agency Sputnik.
Currently, the Russian vaccine is in phase 3 of clinical trials, which includes more than 40,000 volunteers, both from Russia, India, the United Arab Emirates and Belarus, among other countries.
Talks began in Brazil last week.
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