Coronavirus: Spain will donate 400 thousand doses of AstraZeneca to Argentina

08/20/2021 4:42 PM

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Updated 08/20/2021 4:52 PM

Argentina will receive a

donation of 400,000 vaccines

against the coronavirus from AstraZeneca from Spain.

The shipment

will arrive in the country on Sunday

morning.

Cabinet chief Santiago Cafiero confirmed this Friday that the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, "has finished managing a donation from the Spanish government" with that volume of vaccines to boost the immunization campaign during August, according to the AP agency. .

The shipment is part of a total of

7.5 million doses of vaccines that the Spanish government

promised to donate to Latin American countries.

According to official sources, they will be used to

complete the immunization schedules

of those who have already received the first dose of AstraZeneca, starting with people who have been using the first dose for the

longest time

and those over 50 years of age.

Argentina will receive 400 thousand doses of AstraZeneca from Spain - AP Photo

The

donation comes through the COVAX mechanism

and is an initiative coordinated by the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), the Coalition for Innovation in Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) and the World Health Organization (WHO), with logistical support UNICEF and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in line with Spain's desire to articulate a multilateral response to the crisis caused by COVID-19.

The AstraZeneca vaccines provided by Spain are added to the 768 thousand doses of Sinopharm that will arrive in the country on Saturday, with which Argentina will exceed 47,500,000 vaccines. 

"We want to complete (the vaccination with)

seven million second doses

(of different vaccines) during this month," said Cafiero.

The Government seeks to accelerate the immunization plan for fear that the contagious Delta variant will begin to spread massively.

Argentina has so far registered 5.1 million infections and more than 109,000 deaths from COVID-19.

It has 27 people vaccinated with the first dose and 11.2 million with the full schedule.

Vaccine combination

A collaborative study between the Nation, the Russian Fund for Direct Collaboration and the Ministries of Health of Buenos Aires, Ciudad, Córdoba, La Rioja and San Luis yielded its first partial results, which indicate that the combination of vaccines against the coronavirus does not raise the Adverse effects.

The results were released 14 days after the combined inoculation in more than 1,100 people, out of 8,319 enrolled and, according to the above, no serious adverse events were recorded.

"They are all safe,"

said Nicolás Kreplak, Buenos Aires Minister of Health, who stressed that symptoms, such as fever, fatigue or burning in the arm "usually go away in seven days."

From Ciudad they agreed on the conclusions of their Buenos Aires peers and stated that

"the combinations of all available vaccines are safe"

and with a "significant increase in antibodies compared to the first dose, after 14 days."

The study, which is the one with "the most variants on the planet", according to those who participated in the exhibition on behalf of the Ministry of Health of the Nation, will have from the second week of September the efficacy results linked to compliance 28 days after inoculation.

The combination of vaccines in Argentina began on August 6 due to the shortage of the arrival of component 2 of Sputnik V, which prevents completing the vaccination schedules of those who received the first dose of the Russian vaccine.

However, the Government clarified that for the moment the AstraZeneca doses received from Spain will

not be used to combine with the development carried out in Russia

.

LM

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