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One month after the start of the vaccination plan, only 51,000 people received the two doses

2021-01-28T23:31:38.033Z


296,900 vaccines were applied from the first dose of the shipment of 300 thousand doses of Sputnik V. But of the second dose that is required, only 17% of those in the country were given.


01/28/2021 20:01

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 01/28/2021 20:01

A month after the start of the coronavirus vaccination plan, the inter-ministerial command in charge of the operation has already applied 296,900 vaccines from the first dose of the shipment of 300,000 doses of Sputnik V that arrived from Russia on December 24.

The figure is equivalent to 93 percent of the total of the first shipment of the vaccine produced by the Gamaleya Center.

The application of the corresponding 300 thousand second doses that arrived on a second Aerolineas Argentinas flight on January 16 is progressing more slowly.

Only 51,451 doses were applied

: the figure equates to

17 percent of that batch

.

The vaccination began on December 29 at the Posadas Hospital.

"We will have to continue taking good care of ourselves because

until the vaccine has a community effect, a few months will pass

," warned the Minister of Health Ginés González García that day. He had not yet considered the delay in the manufacture that the Russian authorities have already made official . 

Proportionally,

Tucumán is the most backward province

: it barely applied 84 percent of the 11,500 first doses it received, but started the second stage more quickly than other districts.

Buenos Aires, on the other hand, the most populous district, applied 89% of the first 123,000 doses it received, but

barely vaccinated 4% with the second dose

.

The City is in a similar situation, which vaccinated 100 percent of the 24,300 health system professionals with the first dose, but only vaccinated 18 percent with the two doses, which guarantee an effectiveness of 95 percent.

The figures are derived from the open data of the Ministry of Health

, which is updated daily.

From the first shipment, about 450 vaccines were lost in the Buenos Aires town of Olavarría - in a fact that was never clarified - and 140 more had to be discarded in Chubut because the necessary cold chain was lost.

In the first case, the vaccines were replaced by the Province to advance with the vaccination of the 1700 health employees of the district.

The Aerolineas flight that landed on Thursday morning brought with it

110,000 more vaccines from the first dose and another 110,000 from the second

.

The same shipment also brought 20,000 doses to Bolivia. 

The government planned to receive 5 million vaccines before the end of January and another 14.7 million in February.

With that horizon, he planned to search for doses in batches of a million before the end of the month.

However,

a bottleneck in production

recognized by the Gamaleya Center forced the plans to be delayed.

"As a result, we will see a significant increase in production in the second quarter. Until then, some batches may have delays of up to 2-3 weeks," the Russian laboratory warned in a statement.

In the Government they stressed that the same communiqué highlights that the production destined for Argentina will be a priority.

The Ministry of Health awaits the new schedule to adjust the times. 

In the portfolio led by González García, they indicated that the vaccination operation

is currently ongoing

.

"As long as we have vaccines to apply, we will have work ahead of us," they said at the Health Ministry.

According to the population calculations made by the Ministry of the Interior, the first priority group is Health personnel (763 thousand people);

those over 60 years of age (almost 8 million), security forces and Armed Forces personnel (500,000) and people at risk from pre-existing diseases (2,800,000).

This is a total universe of 12,063,000.

Each of the 24 districts is

responsible for applying the

proportionally distributed

doses

and for preparing its own registry of people willing to apply the vaccine.

Some districts, like the City, first hope to apply those of the Health staff.

"Argentina did not bet on the Russian Sputnik vaccine, what happened was that the Russian Sputnik V vaccine was the first that Argentina had available," said President Alberto Fernández on Wednesday during his visit to Chile.

The president reported that the Government seeks to close agreements with other laboratories and accelerate the arrival of more vaccines already committed.

"We are trying to get order on the vaccine delivery schedule with the Russian Federation, but also insisting that

AstraZeneca

vaccines

start arriving in Argentina and trying to move forward with Sinopharm (from China) for a possible delivery of one million vaccines that could be made quickly, "said the president, who also added that there are talks with the US companies Janssen and Moderna.


Source: clarin

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