03/22/2021 4:46 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/22/2021 9:04 AM
The Aerolineas Argentinas flight that
will bring 500,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against the
coronavirus to the country took off from Moscow at 0.14 (Argentine time) this Monday and it is estimated that it will land in Ezeiza at 18.35, after 18 hours of non-stop flight .
As detailed by the Ministry of Health of the Nation, the shipment consists of 300,000 doses of component 1, which is applied first, and 200,000 doses of the second component.
The flight, in charge of an Airbus 330-200, under the number AR1063, had arrived at 18:15 (Argentine time) on Sunday at Sheremetyevo international airport, after having departed at 2:29 that same day from the international airport of Ezeiza.
The new operation takes place after the seventh flight arrived from Moscow on Friday, with the aim of expediting the immunization plan implemented by the Government to combat the coronavirus, which this Sunday began the stage of transfer to the provinces of the items that they arrived in the territory last Friday.
The flag company began its flights to Moscow at the end of last December and, according to data provided by Health to this newspaper, in the first two transfers
600,150
doses of Sputnik V
arrived in the country
, while in the third they were
220,000
;
in the fourth,
400,390
;
in the fifth and sixth they totaled 1,249,195.
In total, among the seven flights completed with the capital of the Russian Federation,
2,799,735 doses
of Sputnik V.
In total, among the seven flights completed with the capital of the Russian Federation, 2,799,000 doses of Sputnik V were brought to the Argn.
In parallel with this eighth flight to Russia, the operation began to transfer to the entire territory the doses of the previous flight, which had arrived on Friday from Moscow, with 330 thousand doses of the first application of the Sputnik V vaccine.
With that batch, Argentina has already received a total of 4,379,735 doses of vaccines, of which 3,843,565 were distributed throughout the country, according to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor.
Meanwhile, there are unknowns about when the three million Sinopharm vaccines announced last week will arrive in the country.
On that point the Government did not give any new details.
And under the new official policy, hopefully he won't give them until the vaccines are loaded onto the plane.
With information from Télam.