06/12/2021 17:00
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 06/12/2021 17:03
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Saturday
another 447 deaths and 18,057 cases
of coronavirus.
Thus, the national territory already counts 85,075 deaths and 4,111,147 infections since the start of the pandemic.
Argentina is the twelfth country to break the barrier of 85 thousand fatalities.
Before, the United States (614 thousand until today), Brazil (484 thousand), India (367 thousand), Mexico (229 thousand), Peru (188 thousand), United Kingdom (127 thousand), Italy (126 thousand), Russia did. (126 thousand), France (110 thousand), Colombia (94 thousand) and Germany (90 thousand).
Regarding the immunization plan, 15,353,408 million vaccines have been applied so far.
In this context, 12,202,881 people (26.6% of the population) received at least one dose, while 3,150,527 (just 6.8%) received both.
Official sources confirmed that more than 800,000 doses of AstraZeneca will land tonight, in addition to the more than 930,000 from the same laboratory that will arrive on Monday.
In this way, Argentina will exceed 20 million vaccines, that is,
what is necessary to immunize 10 million people
, less than a quarter of the entire country.
The country received so far 18,931,945 doses and with the departures that arrive today and on Monday the figure of 20,677,145 will be reached: 9,415,745 correspond to Sputnik V (7,875,585 of component 1 and 1,540,160 of component 2 ), 4,000,000 from Sinopharm, 580,000 AstraZeneca - Covishield, 1,944,000 AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism and 4,737,400 will be AstraZeneca-University of Oxford doses.
To date, in Argentina less than 7% of the population has been fully immunized.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, highlighted that the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is the "largest in our history" and said that with the arrival of more immunizers and "the commitment of the provinces we will have a significant percentage of the population vaccinated by the end of August ".
"Yesterday we announced the signing with Sinopharm for 2 million doses and the Cansino vaccine that we are working to receive 5.4 million was also approved by Ministerial Resolution," he added.
In addition, he mentioned "those from Covax, which have to keep coming more, like the vaccine from the Russian Federation.
Vizzoti emphasized that "the first doses that are being given in the majority of the country's population is very important to reduce hospitalizations and deaths" and added that "30% of the population that has already started vaccination and is a population that is most at risk, there are 15 million people ", therefore
"
this vaccination
is a very important milestone "
.
Argentina is in the top ten of the countries with the most deaths from Covid.
Photo: EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni
Regarding herd immunity, the official indicated that "it will depend, not only on the vaccine, because we have to understand that the vaccine has a key role, but alone it is not enough", because "in all the countries that have The number of cases has decreased, in addition to vaccinating, they have had very strict care measures ".
"So, that is a very big message, the more we strengthen care, while we vaccinate, the faster we will lower the cases," he said and said that "we want to achieve the immunity of the herd with vaccines, not with infected people ".
In that sense, he stated that "we believe that with the arrival of these vaccines and the commitment of the provinces we will have a significant percentage of the population vaccinated by the end of August."
