06/21/2021 6:54 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/21/2021 6:54 PM
Argentina received
almost 2 million vaccines
against the coronavirus on two flights on
Monday
.
In the morning a shipment had arrived with
more than 1.1 million AstraZeneca
.
And this afternoon, an Aerolineas Argentinas flight brought
768 thousand doses of Sinopharm
from China
.
This is the first shipment under the new agreement signed by the Government to purchase 6 million Chinese vaccines (2 million in June and 4 million in July).
The previous contract - already completed - had been for 4 million.
Flight AR1065 arrived minutes before 19:00. Now, between Tuesday and Wednesday, another plane from the flag line and a commercial one from
Qatar Airways
are scheduled to arrive
to complete the shipments agreed for this month.
In the morning, 1,134,000 AstraZeneca vaccines arrived from the United States.
LATAM Cargo Colombia cargo flight UC1407 landed at Ezeiza International Airport at 9.50 am
These are the doses that began to be produced in Argentina and whose completion was carried out at the AMRI plant in Albuquerque.
With these two shipments,
the country has 22,584,145 doses
of the different vaccines against the coronavirus since last December, when the national government launched the Strategic Vaccination Plan.
Our second flight of the weekend left for China in search of more doses of the Sinopharm vaccine.
It is a pride for us to fulfill this logistical task that allows more Argentines to be vaccinated.
# FlagAirline ✈️🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/uj91hBESsv
- Pablo Ceriani (@ceriani_pablo) June 20, 2021
"This shipment is important to continue climbing in the vaccination plan, the largest campaign in our history. It has been escalating with great speed, with a distribution that is done in a short time and that supplies the vaccination centers throughout the territory." , said Santiago Cafiero, head of the national Cabinet, from the Ezeiza airport.
"With these flights,
we carried out 26 operations and exceeded 15 million transported doses
," said the president of Aerolíneas Argentinas,
Pablo Ceriani
.
As Ceriani pointed out, "we continue to nurture the vaccination campaign and hope to be able to get out of this unprecedented health crisis soon. We are proud to be able to play such an important role when the country needs it most."
Logistics
The Sinopharm vaccine is transported at
a temperature between 2 and 8 degrees above zero
, in containers called "envirotainers" with active temperature control and in three-dose vials.
In addition, this type of cargo, by strict indication of the laboratory, can only be transferred in the hold of the aircraft.
Prior to this Monday, Aerolineas Argentinas had completed a total of five flights to the People's Republic of China, in which 3,659,200 vaccines produced by the China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp. had been transferred.
In addition,
so far 19 flights have been made to Moscow
, in which 9,473,290 doses were transported, so that in 24 operations carried out a total of 13,132,490 doses were brought.
Meanwhile,
for this week it is also expected that new flights to Moscow will be made
in search of shipments of the Sputnik V vaccine. "We are waiting for confirmation of how many doses we are going to receive of component 1 and 2 this week from Russia," the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti.
Until this morning, Argentina had 20,615,390 doses distributed among the 24 jurisdictions, of which 17,837,121 have already been applied, according to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor.
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