04/10/2021 4:52 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/10/2021 4:52 AM
After the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, confirmed that the provinces are authorized to negotiate the purchase of vaccines,
Córdoba, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe
began joint efforts to acquire doses of the drug against the coronavirus.
As confirmed to the newspaper
La Voz
, the three governors have already concluded the first conversation to buy items additionally and independently of those managed by the Government led by Alberto Fernández.
The province governed by Juan Schiaretti had already confirmed this Thursday through social networks that they were in talks: "Through the health authorities we have held conversations since November 2020 with vaccine producing laboratories such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Elea, in he tries to buy doses of his vaccines to be applied to the citizens of the province. "
"In all cases, the commercial representatives of the laboratories expressed their good will, but clarifying that, in order to comply with the commitments assumed with the nation states,
they would not be in a position to provide vaccines before the end of 2021.
"
In addition,
Tierra del Fuego
resumed negotiations on Thursday to acquire 50,000 Sputnik V vaccines and 50,000 Sinopharm.
To do this, Governor Gustavo Melella sent notes to the Russian National Investment Fund (Russian Direct Investment Fund Rdif) with the idea of "retaking a preliminary agreement."
Tweets from the Government of Córdoba about vaccines against the coronavirus.
For his part, the official reactivated the dialogue with the Chinese embassy in Argentina, with which there had also been previous contacts, for the Sinopharm vaccines.
Contacts with different laboratories also began from the City of Buenos Aires.
This was confirmed by sources from the Buenos Aires officialism to Clarín: "
We are initiating contacts with all the producers who have the vaccine
."
This Friday, the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Felipe Miguel, told
La Red
radio
: "Knowing how difficult it is going to be, we are going to try."
"We are going to go out and make every effort to acquire vaccines," he said.
Following Cafiero's statements, Mendoza also campaigned to buy doses of the drug against Covid-19, as confirmed by Governor Rodolfo Suárez: "We have activated all possible contacts to do so but it is very difficult. The national government promised millions of vaccines and he did not comply and now he is throwing the ball to the provinces. Anyway, we are going to try to buy them. "
Meanwhile, he denied that the acquisition of vaccines had been enabled from the beginning: "That policy seemed good to us, but
in January Santiago Cafiero said that the provinces could not buy vaccines
, anyway in December we tried it and just today they tell us that is this possible to do".
Until now, the 7,266,500 doses of different formulations that reached Argentina were acquired by the national government, which then distributes them according to population and epidemiological criteria to the provinces.
Of the total, 6,489,846 doses (89.31%) were distributed to all jurisdictions in the country and 4,771,214 (65.66%) have already been applied.
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