02/02/2021 10:35
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/02/2021 10:35
Amid official concern about the delays of Russian vaccines scheduled for January and February, the Argentine government is finalizing details to receive a shipment of 1 million vaccines from China in February.
This would be a first shipment of a multi-million dose deal of the Sinopharm vaccine, which also requires a first and second dose.
The delivery of one million would be an advance of the agreement that Alberto Fernández and Xi Jinping are carrying out for a millionaire volume.
High national government sources told Clarín that one million doses would arrive in Ezeiza in February, amid the delays suffered by the production of Sputnik V, of which 15 million were expected between January and February.
This Tuesday, very early, the Deputy Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, denied that an agreement had already been signed with China and elaborated on the delays of the Russian vaccine.
But official sources assured this newspaper that 1 million Sinopharm vaccines will arrive in February, to decompress the vaccination situation in Argentina.
The Chinese vaccine costs twice the Russian one, with a value of $ 30.
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