06/29/2021 9:58 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/29/2021 9:56 PM
A new Aerolineas Argentinas flight arrived tonight with Sputnik V vaccines against the coronavirus.
The shipment includes
359,085 doses of Component 1 and 350,000 of Component 2
.
The plane - with the AR1061 nomenclature - from Moscow arrived in Ezeiza at 8:22 p.m., after making a stopover in Rome.
With this new shipment, Argentina received a total of
25,706,730 vaccines
to combat covid-19.
This new operation takes place in the midst of the controversy due to the
lag
between the quantities delivered for component 1 and 2. Until now, Russia has delivered 9,415,745 vaccines to our country, of which 7,875,585 correspond to the first dose and only 1,540,160 to the second.
So far, Argentina has received 7,875,585 doses of the first component of Sputnik V and only 1,540,160 of the second.
Photo: Reuters
"With the arrival of 350,000 doses of component 2, the vaccination schedules will begin this week," the government said in a statement.
In addition, it was reported that "the same plane that arrives tonight will return to Russia this week in search of more doses."
As confirmed by Pablo Ceriani, president of Aerolineas Argentinas, the plane will depart for Moscow again
at 2 am
this Wednesday.
"We continue adding operations for the vaccination campaign," the official was emboldened on his Twitter account.
We continue adding operations for the vaccination campaign ✈️.
While a @Aerolineas_AR flight arrives from Moscow tonight with more doses of @sputnikvaccine, we want to announce that another flight will depart tomorrow 02am so that vaccines can continue to arrive in the country.
🇦🇷🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/eD5KeRiXqr
- Pablo Ceriani (@ceriani_pablo) June 29, 2021
Russia had anticipated that this week it will send
the active principle
so that the second doses of the vaccine can begin to be packaged in Argentina.
It has not yet been specified whether it will come as part of the cargo for the second flight.
In any case, Marcelo Figueiras, president of Laboratorios Richmond, announced that next Monday they will begin to produce
150,000 doses of component two
of Sputnik V.
The same plane that arrived tonight will depart again for Moscow to look for a new shipment of Sputnik V. Photo: Presidency
Vaccine overview
In addition, Figueiras pointed out that they will "try to finish the entire production cycle of the vaccine shortly."
Thus he made reference to the possibility that Argentina could carry out the complete manufacturing process in the future.
And he added: "With the new plant; as we move forward in the production chain, we are gaining independence."
Unlike the Sinopharm and AstraZeneca injections that the country also uses, the two doses of Sputnik V
are different from each other
and the immunization is completed with both components.
The flight arrived after 8 pm and Aerolineas Argentinas workers proceeded to unload the vaccines.
Presidency photo
That is why in the last time the doubts and questions have grown in the millions of Argentines who received the first dose in March or April and still had no news of the second.
For now, the combination of drugs from different laboratories - known as
heterologous vaccination
- is not yet authorized by the Anmat, a regulatory entity in the matter, which depends on the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
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