04/19/2021 17:37
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/19/2021 5:51 PM
A few hours after the arrival of an Aerolineas Argentinas flight from Russia, with 800 thousand doses of Sputnik V, this Monday it was confirmed that the Government is making progress in the preparations to withdraw
a new shipment
of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus.
Everything indicates that the operation could begin
on Saturday 24
, with the departure of an Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Beijing, with a possible stopover in Europe.
If so, he could be returning to the country on Monday 26.
According to the sources consulted by
Clarín
, the Government is managing the authorizations and awaits the final confirmation of delivery of dose production and logistics from China.
That is why the flight plan could undergo modifications in the coming days.
The number of doses that the plane of the flag airline will bring has not yet been revealed.
Argentina has already received two million vaccines from Sinopharm.
The current contract between the Argentine government and the National Pharmaceutical Corporation of China contemplates the delivery of another
two million doses
, according to what the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, reported weeks ago.
This would be the third transfer from China to bring shipments from Sinopharm to the country.
On Thursday, April 1, flight AR1051 brought
a million vaccines
, which is until today the largest transfer in a single plane that the country made.
Previously, on February 26, an Aerolineas Argentinas flight arrived with 904 thousand.
Two days later, a remnant of 96,000 vaccines landed on an Air France plane.
With the arrival of the 800 thousand Sputnik V that will touch Argentine soil tonight, the country will have received a total of 8,932,600 doses.
According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor of the Ministry of Health, as of this morning,
6,334,554 doses
were applied
, of which 5,534,225 correspond to the first dose, and 800,329 to the second.
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