How will the order of priorities be in the Government's teaching vaccination plan

02/23/2021 7:24 PM

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 02/24/2021 6:47 AM

After the

new Minister of Health

, Carla Vizzotti, announced on Tuesday that the vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm that will arrive in the country this Thursday will be

destined to immunize teachers from all over the country

, her peer from the Education portfolio, Nicolás Trotta , expanded on the details of how they plan to advance that campaign.

Vizzotti headed the meeting of the Federal Council of Health (CoFeSa) with the ministers of Health of all the provinces, where he

presented the plan

that his area has planned for the shipment of Chinese vaccines soon to arrive.

Trotta, for his part, disseminated

the order of priorities that the Government intends to respect

, a point that they will endeavor to highlight in the coming days, after the VIP Vaccination scandal, which expelled former minister Ginés González García from the cabinet.

According to the statement released by the Ministry of Education, the staging of the vaccination plan for teachers would have five five stages:

• In the first instance, it will be the turn

  of the direction and management personnel

  , the supervision and

  inspection

  personnel

  .

  It is estimated that it is a group with an

  average age of risk

  .

  It will also include

  teachers of initial level

  -including maternity cycle-, those of the

  first cycle of the primary level

   (1st, 2nd and 3rd grade) and those of

  special education

  .

  all of them, that they return to

  face-

  to-

  face work

  or, as the statement maintains, to be "in front of male and female students."

  This is an estimated universe of 457,694 education workers.

  This group

  would begin to be vaccinated next week

  , according to what Vizzotti explained.

• In a second section, there is

  the teaching support staff

  and

  all other personnel without teaching appointment but who work in educational establishments of compulsory levels, in different areas and services:

  teacher's office, administration, technical

  services, general services, and equivalents.

  There they calculate a universe of 247,413 workers to be vaccinated.

• The third stage will correspond to the teachers "in front of students"

  of primary level

  ,

  of the second cycle

  from 4th to 6th and 7th grade, as appropriate.

  There will be 148,692 teachers to immunize.

• The

  teachers of secondary and 

  continuing education for youth and

  adults

  at all levels will be the focus of the fourth stage of the plan.

  Also

  professional training instructors

  .

  They calculate a universe of 331,099 people. 

• Finally, in the last group of priorities will be

  teachers and non-teachers

  from institutes of

  higher education and universities

  .

  A universe of 273,185 workers.

Official sources confirm that the vaccination campaign will start on some undefined day next week.

It would be launched together, in the different provinces, with a federal bias.

Among teaching and non-teaching personnel,

the calculation released by the Ministry of Education covers more than 

1,450,000 workers

, so it is discounted that

the Government will need more doses than those that it already has guaranteed

with the purchase in China.

While the Aerolineas Argentinas flight that departed this Tuesday to China will return next Thursday with 904 thousand doses.

"In the next few days, by means of a line flight, 96 thousand more doses will arrive,

which will complete the 1,000,000 doses purchased by the national government

,

" they

said in the statement.

In total, there

will be 48 hours of operation with a stopover in Madrid, plus loading time at the Beijing International Airport

, and the flight is expected to land again in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.

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