02/10/2021 11:39 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/10/2021 23:39
This Wednesday at 23:00 a new Aerolineas Argentinas flight departed from Ezeiza to Russia to bring to the country a shipment with
400,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine
.
It is the
fourth plane
sent by the flag carrier to Moscow, and like its predecessors, it is an Airbus A-330 for passengers with a maximum capacity in its holds for 600,000 components of the coronavirus vaccine.
He is expected to return to Argentina after the 42 hours required by the operation, which includes the time of the flights plus a period of between four and six hours for the loading process.
Take off of our A330 direct to Moscow, Russia.
Good flight.
✈️🇦🇷 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/R7h3UMvWC8
- Aerolineas Argentinas (@Aerolineas_AR) February 11, 2021
The confirmation of the flight had been given by the president of Aerolineas Argentinas,
Pablo Ceriani
, this Wednesday morning.
"The Buenos Aires - Moscow route is the longest non-stop we have carried out so far. This operation requires significant logistical work in coordination with actors from both countries. All our energy is put into fulfilling this task," explained Ceriani in his twitter account.
According to government sources indicated to Clarín, the shipment
will be 400,000 doses of the first component of the vaccine
, and it is the largest of all those that have arrived so far.
Today at 11pm the fourth flight to Russia will take off from Ezeiza to bring more doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to the country. Committed to fulfilling this fundamental task to face Covid-19.
# FlagAirline pic.twitter.com/PDfMrziqK3
- Aerolineas Argentinas (@Aerolineas_AR) February 10, 2021
Among the three previous shipments,
820,000 doses
of Sputnik V
were counted
, between the end of December last year and the end of January.
The first two brought 300,000, and then due to problems in the production of the vaccine, the third was reduced to 220,000 units, which arrived on
January 28
.
The government of Alberto Fernández expected that by the first month of the year Argentina would have 5.3 million doses of the Russian vaccine, but that expectation was far removed from reality.
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