03/19/2021 9:19 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/19/2021 11:52 AM
In the midst of the shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus, the arrival in the country of the flight identified as AR1061 of Aerolineas Argentinas from Moscow with 330,000 doses of Sputnik V, the formula developed by the Russian Center Gamaleya, is scheduled for the arrival in the country of this Friday.
All the doses that will arrive this afternoon are from
component 1
of the vaccine.
That is, the first is applied of the two that complete the immunization treatment with Sputnik V.
In the
"coming weeks" more flights
with vaccines
will arrive
, they informed
Clarín
from the Government, without giving further details.
The Government
kept the volume of the shipment secret
, which was only officially reported by the National Ministry of Health after 11 in the morning.
Also from the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), linked to the manufacture and distribution of Sputnik, they had maintained
secrecy
in relation to the number of applications that will arrive this Friday in the country.
So far, the aircraft that brought the most doses of Sputnik was one of the two from Aerolineas Argentinas that arrived in Ezeiza from Moscow on February 28, and that plane loaded
732,500 doses
.
The one to be completed this Friday is the seventh mission to Moscow.
The Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GIF, left the Sheremetievo International Airport, with the nomination AR1061, this Thursday at 22:08 (Argentine time), after staying just over six hours there, time that required the loading of the vaccines, according to the news agency Télam.
Aerolineas Argentinas reconditioned passenger planes to transport cargo.
Presidency / Archive photo.
The aircraft had taken off this Thursday at 1.15am from the Ezeiza international airport and, after just over 15 and a half hours of flight, it arrived in the Russian capital at 4:54 pm that same day (always Argentine time).
The doses that reached the country
According to data adjusted by the Ministry of Health of the Nation to
Clarín
last Wednesday, so far
4,049,735 doses of vaccines against covid-19 have
arrived in the country
.
The first shipment arrived in Argentina on December 24, there were
300,150
doses of Sputnik V;
the second arrival was on January 16, and brought the country
300,000
more applications, also of the Russian vaccine;
The third shipment of vaccines arrived in Ezeiza on Thursday, January 28, this time there were
220,000
doses of Sputnik V (strictly speaking, 240,000 arrived, but 20,000 were destined for Bolivia) and the fourth delivery was on February 12, another
400,390
doses of the Russian vaccine.
Some of the 2,469,735 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine that have already arrived in the country are unloaded in Ezeiza.
Presidency / Archive photo.
In turn, on February 15,
580,000
doses of the Covishield vaccine arrived, which is the vaccine from the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory, manufactured at the
Serum Institute
of India;
While on February 26 the first Chinese vaccines arrived from the Sinopharm laboratory, they were
904,000
doses;
Finally, on Sunday, February 28,
96,000
more doses of the Chinese vaccine
arrived in Ezeiza
(on a KLM flight) and
1,249,195
applications of Sputnik V in two Aerolineas Argentinas planes.
LGP
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