06/14/2021 5:50 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 06/14/2021 7:21 PM
Argentina
surpassed the 20 million
coronavirus
vaccines
received
this Monday
, after a new batch of
934,200 doses
of AstraZeneca
arrived at the Ezeiza airport this afternoon
.
It is a batch of serums made with the
active principle produced in Argentina
, which arrived at 5:50 p.m. on flight AM1407 that brought them from the United States.
President Alberto Fernández and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti were present, who approached the international terminal to receive the crew.
The official reception group was made up of the
hard core of the Albertist cabinet
, with the head of ministers Santiago Cafiero and the presidential advisor
Cecilia Nicolini, who played a leading
role in the negotiations with the laboratories.
With the presence of Alberto Fernández, more than 900 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived.
Photo Capture
They arrived at the Ezeiza runway aboard a helicopter.
They got off the aircraft wearing
bibs alluding
to the vaccination plan, stamped with
a heart and a syringe
.
Instead, Fernández wore an
orange safety vest
.
They walked a dozen meters and supervised the start of the unloading of the material.
After 20 minutes, the President
delivered greetings and handshakes
and left the venue.
This new shipment is the fourth of this type of vaccine and adds to the 843,600 doses received on May 27, the 2,148,600 that arrived on May 31 and the 811,000 that arrived on Saturday night, on a company flight. Aeroméxico, directly from the Federal District.
A woman receives the dose of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine.
Photo Maxi Failla.
With this item
, the exact number of doses received is 20,677,145
.
The detail is as follows:
9,415,745 correspond to Sputnik V (7,875,585 of component 1 and component 2 of 1,540,160)
4,000,000 Sinopharm
580,000 AstraZeneca - Covishield
1,944,000 AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism
4,737,400 will be AstraZeneca-University of Oxford doses.
New contracts
Meanwhile, on Friday new contracts were announced with
Sinopharm for 2 million more doses and with Cansino for 5.4 million Convidencia vaccines
, whose authorization "on an emergency basis" was specified by the Ministry of Health, after the approval of the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat).
Convidencia (Recombinant Novel Coronavirus Vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) is from the Cansino Biologics Inc laboratory (Beijing Institute of Biotechnology), and it is a single dose vaccine, the third developed by China, after Sinovac and Sinopharm.
As reported over the weekend,
nearly 30% of the nation's population has already received the first dose
of the vaccine.
AFG / DD / DS
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