07/09/2021 15:03
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/09/2021 18:09
Hundreds of people, many of them at risk population, were summoned by the Province to receive the second dose of Sputnik V in a vaccination center in La Plata, but after long lines they
had to withdraw because the vaccines had run out
.
With anger and discomfort, hundreds of people left the vaccination center located at 4 and 51, just two blocks from the Buenos Aires governorate, after those responsible for the place notified them that the doses with the second component had been finished.
Many of the people who made lines of more than two blocks are at risk population.
According to the local newspaper
El Día
, there were 90-year-olds who, accompanied by relatives, were waiting with the shift assigned by the Province.
"We came on Monday the 5th and they told us that there was no more than the second dose of Sputnik V and they rescheduled it for today. I came with my dad who is 90 years old," Graciela complained to that outlet.
The lines, with older people who had to wait for stops, began on 4th street, continued until 53 and then continued until 3. They had to negotiate more than 200 meters until they reached the vaccination center whose access is located in front of the gymnastics headquarters and Fencing La Plata.
The doses of the second component of Sputnik V were finished just after noon, and there were people at the scene who had arrived in advance because they had a shift at 3 p.m. and were afraid that the vaccines would run out.
This was explained by another of the neighbors, according to the La Plata media: "Many like me came earlier because we feared that this could happen, and it happened. The organization was very bad, with any number of people in the same place when it is supposed to it is not due ".
Many of the people hoping to complete the vaccination schedule received the first dose more than three months ago.
And the claims also multiplied on social networks.
They ran out of vaccines at the 4 and 51 post. No second doses for those who had a turn.
Yes, for those who went and kept them waiting, all older adults.
Who were given the second doses of those who had a turn?
Get the epic in the ortho.
- Matias Lojo (@lojomatias) July 9, 2021
@kicilofok in La Plata a vaccination disaster, today on 4 and 51 the vaccines did not reach.
Those mentioned were vaccinated at 10 and 11, those at 12 and 13 should return on Tuesday.
They stopped vaccinating 12.30
- Maria Rodriguez (@ Cuqui1900) July 9, 2021
@DrDanielGollan the silver posta of 4 and 51 the vast majority of those mentioned remained without being vaccinated.
Lack of vaccines could only be vaccinated until 12.30. A disorganization, you send 3000 shifts send 3000 vaccines.
Elementary
- Maria Rodriguez (@ Cuqui1900) July 9, 2021
Today they took turns for the second dose of Sputnik in La Plata calle 4 and 51, 5 blocks in line, the old men with a shift and the 40-year-old without a shift, all mixed up, without privilege for the scandal c / shift
- Clara (@ Cliza2Clara) July 9, 2021
Someone thinks of explaining from @BAProvincia where are the 2nd doses of Sputnik for which there was a shift at 4 and 51 in La Plata and they are not giving because "they finished, I came back on Tuesday and queued"?
@todonoticias @Mau_Albornoz
- Agus Cerutti (@ agus1206) July 9, 2021
The arrival of the second component of the Russian vaccine is one of the most current difficulties for the Government, which managed to add millions of doses from different laboratories.
Therefore, progress is being made in the tests with volunteers who will receive doses of Sinopharm or AstraZeneca to complete the scheme that began with Sputnik V.
In the City of Buenos Aires, which was the first district to announce it, the imminent start of a vaccine combination trial is expected, which may be key for millions of Argentines who need a solution to this deficit.
In the experiment, those who received the first dose of the Russian vaccine will get the second dose of AstraZeneca or Sinopharm, depending on the group assigned to them.
Expectation for local production
The Richmond laboratory received at its Pilar plant a new batch of 560 liters of the active principle of component 2 of the Sputnik V vaccine to continue with local production, so they expect to have more than a million second doses ready by the next 16 of July.
Through its social networks, the pharmaceutical company announced this Tuesday night that it had finished the first 153,441 doses of component 2 of Sputnik V, of which they sent a sample to the Gamaleya Research Center - developer of the formula - so that carry out the corresponding control.
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Buenos Aires residents who want to participate in the vaccine combination trials are already registered
Richmond expects to have one million doses of component 2 of the Sputnik V vaccine ready in one week