05/27/2021 1:51 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/27/2021 2:56 PM
Amid the rise in coronavirus cases, product of the second wave of the pandemic, Argentina continues to search for vaccines.
Now, the Government reached a new agreement with Sinopharm by which it would receive in the next months
six million doses of the formula developed by that Chinese laboratory
.
This was confirmed to
Clarín by
high official sources.
According to the agreement reached, the first two million doses will arrive
in June
, while the remaining four million will be received
in July
.
The Chinese laboratory will send the vaccines in a new
packaging
that will allow
two million doses to arrive
in
a single flight
, this was reported by the newspaper Página / 12 and confirmed by official sources to this newspaper.
It is worth remembering that Argentina has
already received four million applications
from Sinopharm.
With them, it was decided to inoculate two million people with two doses, since until now the arrival of more of these vaccines was not guaranteed.
The new Sinopharm will arrive in a new packaging that will allow 2 million doses to arrive on one flight.
Photo Rafael Mario Quinteros.
On the other hand, the national government had reported this Wednesday that it closed an agreement with the Chinese-Canadian laboratory CanSino for the purchase of its vaccine against covid-19 that, unlike those that the country already has,
consists of a single dose
.
"We are negotiating with Johnson & Johnson and we also
closed last week with CanSino
, which is another laboratory that also did the clinical trial here, in Argentina, of phase 3 during the past year," said the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, in statements to radio La Red.
Details on the quantity and arrival date of these vaccines are still unknown, although it is estimated that they will be
between three and five million doses
.
So far,
Argentina has received a total of 15,483,345 vaccines against the coronavirus
, of which 2,785,200 arrived in the last three days (1,080,000 Sputnik V, 861,600 AstraZeneca from the Covax mechanism and 843,600 AstraZeneca from those produced in the Argentina and Mexico).
"Of the total doses received since the start of the vaccination plan,
8,115,745 correspond to Sputnik V
(6,975,585 from component 1 and 1,140,160 from component 2), 4,000,000 to Sinopharm, 580,000 to AstraZeneca / Covishield, 1,944 .000 to Astrazeneca through the Covax mechanism and 843,600 to AstraZeneca, which represent the first batch of vaccines whose active ingredient was produced in Argentina, "the Ministry of Health explained in a statement.
According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor, the online registry that shows in real time the immunization operation throughout the Argentine territory, so far
12,879,304 vaccines have been distributed
, of which 11,503,476 have already been applied: 8,988 .267 people received the first dose and only 2,515,209, both.
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