04/24/2021 12:00
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/24/2021 12:00
An
Aerolineas Argentinas
flight
will depart this Saturday afternoon from Ezeiza airport to Beijing.
It will be part of the mission that will bring in the next few days a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus
This Friday at 1:42 p.m., another Aerolineas aircraft had departed.
Both planes will be back on Sunday and Monday with much of the cargo.
While another part of the million doses, a small one, will arrive in the country on Wednesday
on a Lufthansa airline flight
.
The "Beijing Operation", as they call this new chapter in the arrival of vaccines in the corridors of the Casa Rosada, will bring to the country
the third million
of the four million doses that Argentina bought from the laboratory of the Institute of Biological Products based in the capital of China.
This new shipment, distributed over the three flights, will
be applied to people who have already received the first dose
of Sinopharm.
Argentina will receive next week one million doses of the vaccine made in China.
AFP photo.
The decision seeks to clear up the doubts that were generated after on March 26, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and the provincial ministers that make up the Federal Health Council decided to postpone the application of the second dose for a minimum of three months. .
At that time, the decision to postpone the second dose was to use all the vaccines received to
immunize as many people as possible
, in a context of vaccine shortages and increased infections during the second wave of the pandemic.
With the arrival of these new doses of Sinopharm, Argentina will be close to crossing the barrier of ten million doses of vaccines obtained.
Pablo Ceriani
, president of the flag carrier, posted on his Twitter account this Friday: "At the beginning of the pandemic, we began cargo operations to China, a very important challenge for @Aerolineas_AR, in a highly complex scenario. We made 42 flights to Shanghai and Guangzhou to bring
essential sanitary supplies
to face Covid 19 ".
At the beginning of the pandemic, we began cargo operations to China, a very important challenge for @Aerolineas_AR, in a highly complex scenario.
We made 42 flights from Shanghai and Guangzhou to bring essential sanitary supplies to face Covid 19 pic.twitter.com/zE0ePN0qBz
- Pablo Ceriani (@ceriani_pablo) April 23, 2021
"Beijing is the third city in China [to] that we fly in cargo operations. So far we have transferred 1,904,000 doses, which will be added to the 755,200 that will arrive on the two flights this weekend. , another 384,000 doses will arrive via @lufthansa ", he concluded.
Second day with record deaths
The new mission for vaccines was launched when the number of cases and deaths from the coronavirus escalated.
This Friday, a new record for deaths in 24 hours was reached, with
557 nationwide
.
The shocking European numbers, which until not long ago seemed distant, are beginning to be repeated in Argentina.
The
fatality
rate
- the number of patients who die in relation to the number diagnosed - is
2.1%
, while the mortality rate is 1,344 deaths per million inhabitants.
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