04/26/2021 17:43
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/26/2021 5:45 PM
This Tuesday at 17.38 another Aerolineas Argentinas plane arrived in Ezeiza from China, with
371,200 Sinopharm vaccines
against the coronavirus.
It is the second of the three flights with which
one million doses
will be brought to the country
.
A delivery schedule that will be completed this Wednesday, when the remaining 244,800 doses arrive on a Lufthansa flight
.
Sources consulted by Clarín indicated that in the next few days
a new Airlines flight to China
could leave
in search of another million doses -the fourth-, with which the contract with Sinopharm would be finalized.
The Airbus 330-200 aircraft, registration LV-GIF, took off on Sunday afternoon from Beijing to Madrid, where it arrived at dawn to carry out the technical refueling stopover and then start the journey to Buenos Aires.
"This is the
second of three flights scheduled
this week to receive 1 million doses of this vaccine through a joint operation between the flag line and Lufthansa," the government said in an official statement.
In this context, he recalled that "this Sunday Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR1061 arrived with 384,000."
With the flight that arrived this Monday, Aerolineas Argentinas completed 16 trips in search of vaccines. Photo: courtesy of the Presidency of the Nation
Regarding the cargo that arrived, it was detailed that "in this operation, each vial contains one dose of the vaccine per box, which is why the volume of the cargo is three times greater and should have been distributed in the three detailed trips."
The Ministry of Health reported that this million doses - which will be completed on Wednesday - will be destined to complete the vaccination schedules already started.
That is, it will be used as a
second dose
to conclude the inoculation.
In this sense, it was clarified that the people who will receive the second dose will be mostly
teachers and adults with previous illnesses
.
Quite a novelty, since in the first instance, the Chinese vaccine was not approved to be supplied in older adults.
The first and second doses of the Sinopharm vaccine are the same, so the vaccines that will arrive could also be used for people not yet inoculated;
but
by decision of the state health authority it
was decided that it be administered to people who have already received the first dose.
The priority of the arrival of the Sinopharm vaccine will be to complete the inoculation circle.
Photo: AFP
"The recommendation has been communicated and agreed in the framework of the meeting of the National Immunization Commission and the Federal Health Council held last Wednesday," they reported from the Nation.
The decision to complete the vaccination circle is due to the fact that no new contracts were signed with the Chinese company, so the priority now is to finish the vaccination process of those people who have already received the first dose from the Chinese laboratory.
In this sense, the Public Vaccination Monitor, which allows the inoculation process to be followed in real time, shows that as of Monday 8,701,508 vaccines had been distributed throughout the country, of which 7,214,704: 6,341 had already been applied. 959 of them correspond to the first dose and 872,745 to the second.
With the flight that arrived this Monday,
Aerolineas Argentinas has already completed 16 services
for the transport of vaccines.
The four flights to China were on February 25, bringing 904,000 doses;
on April 1, with 1,000,000 doses;
Sunday's with 384,000 vaccinations;
and that of this Monday, with 371,200.
With information from Télam
DD