04/18/2021 1:15 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/18/2021 1:15 PM
The twelfth flight of Aerolineas Argentinas that will bring a new batch of
Sputnik V
vaccines
is in Moscow in the process of loading and its return to the country is scheduled for this Monday afternoon.
This was reported by official sources to
Clarín
.
Although they did not specify the number of doses of the new shipment, it would be
about half a million
.
The Airbus 330-200 with the number AR1060 landed on Saturday at Sheremetievo international airport at 5:53 p.m. (Argentine time), after taking off from Ezeiza international airport at 2:08 a.m.
The aircraft is scheduled to continue at the Russian air station to load until approximately 2.30am in our country (8.30am in Moscow), so it is estimated that it will
land in Ezeiza on Monday around 7.30pm
, under flight number AR1061. .
The Sputnik V vaccine travels in special containers called "Thermobox".
Photo: Reuter
So far, in 11 operations completed by the flag line to the capital of the Russian Federation,
the country has received 4,467,745 doses of the vaccine manufactured by the Gamaleya Institute
.
The Sputnik V vaccine travels in special containers called "Thermobox", which need to be refrigerated using the thermogel system and dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 18 degrees.
In addition to the 11 services to Russia,
the company made two flights to and from Beijing
, during which operations the country received 1,904,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine.
On the other hand, a total of 864,000 doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus arrived this Sunday in Argentina through the mechanism of the Global Fund for Access to Vaccines against Covid-19 (Covax), which had already been sent to Argentina 218 thousand doses on March 28.
The new shipment - which arrived at Ezeiza at 6.22 on the regular passenger flight KL701, of the Netherlands company, KLM, from Amsterdam - is in addition to the more than 7.2 million doses received so far.
With information from Télam