05/25/2021 10:45 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/25/2021 12:49 PM
In the midst of the confinement arranged by the national government to try to stop the infections at the worst moment of the second wave of coronavirus, Argentina will receive
"over the weekend" another 800 thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine
, as announced this Tuesday from Mexico.
It was the Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard who during an act led by the president of that country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and which had the virtual participation of Alberto Fernández from Olivos, who announced the
"release" of the first batches
of the vaccine that it is produced in both countries.
"Over the weekend Mexico will receive 800,000 and Argentina the other 800,000, half and half, because that was the agreement in August 2020," Ebrard explained at a press conference at the National Palace in which the Minister of Health, Carla, was also present. Vizzotti, and Presidential Advisor Cecilia Nicolini.
This Monday the first 843,600 vaccines of the contract for more than 22 million that the Government signed with AstraZeneca had arrived in the country.
They arrived from the United States on a Latam Cargo flight.
Mexico and Argentina had announced last August an agreement with the support of the Carlos Slim Foundation to produce in Argentina and package in Mexico
250 million doses of the AstraZeneca drug
for distribution in Latin America, but the process had stalled at the Mexican plant.
The Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, announced that "over the weekend" 800 thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrive in Argentina.
Photo: EFE.
Vizzotti traveled to Mexico this Sunday to "closely follow the release process" of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccines that the countries produce jointly.
Ebrard explained that this new batch - the first to be shipped from Mexico - is part of the agreed agreement and from now on, with the approval of the Federal Commission for Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) and AstraZeneca, it will be supplied with the vaccinates not only Argentina, but "many countries in Latin America."
According to the contract signed in November, Argentina
was to receive 2,382,000 vaccines in March and 4,040,000 in April
.
To that were added, as originally agreed, 4,040,000 whose date in the schedule is the end of May;
3,451,000 from June;
and 8,518,000 more until July 31.
In total, there are 22,431,000 doses for a total cost of 89.6 million dollars, as reported by
Clarín
at the end of April.
This Monday, 843,600 doses of Astrazeneca vaccines arrived as part of the Covax mechanism.
Bureaucratic problems and lack of supplies
, as was officially reported, delayed the possibility that Argentina could have purchased vaccines on time, because those that already paid in advance for 60 percent of the total.
After their visit to Mexico, Vizzotti and Nicolini will travel to Cuba to learn about the progress of the Abdala and Soberana 2 vaccines, in view of the possible collaboration in the vaccine production chain between the two countries.
The government indicated that, both in Mexico and with the island, experiences will be exchanged on the vaccination process against covid-19 and access to immunizations.
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