02/25/2021 10:35 AM
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Updated 02/25/2021 12:57 PM
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15m ago
12:41
Pablo Javier Blanco
UCR doubts for 79,885 vaccines
In the midst of the controversy over the handling and transparency of vaccines, which was unleashed after the VIP vaccine scandal, the president of the UCR, Alfredo Cornejo, wonders
why there are 79,885 vaccines that are not registered
on the brand new monitor vaccination public that the Government presented yesterday.
According to his calculations, in the five vaccine flights that arrived in the country between December 24 and February 17 (four with Sputnik V from Gamaleya and one with Astrazeneca from Covidshield) the country was supplied with 1,800,000 doses.
However, in the Public Vaccination Monitor launched by the Government after the resignation of Ginés González García, at the express request of Minister Carla Vizzotti, there are 1,720,115 doses distributed throughout the country.
"With this we see that there is then a difference of 79,885 vaccines that have entered but are
not distributed. We then wonder where they went,
" said the Mendoza deputy to
Clarín
.
The stock of vaccines continues to generate suspicions, especially after the first shipment and distribution of doses to the provinces there was a package of 3,000 doses that was reserved for discretionary management of the Ministry of Health.
With those doses the VIP Vaccination of the scandal was mounted.
33m ago
12:24
Kicillof against the "strains" of vaccines
The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, reiterated today that the desire that prevails in his administration is to "quickly vaccinate" the population against the coronavirus and stressed the need for
"no one to sneak in or revive"
.
He also said that the VIP vaccination scandal in the resignation of the former Minister of Health Ginés González García "cannot cover the real fact: people want to be vaccinated even though they filled their heads for months saying that the vaccine was bad."
Speaking to C5N, Kicillof said that in his province there are no hidden vaccinations and, true to his style, he put Macrismo in the bag of criticism.
"We must avoid irregularities and punish them," he stressed, but recalled that in the government of Mauricio Macri and María Eugenia Vidal "lists of those who bleached money were known," for which he asked "to put everything in its dimension."
52m ago
12:05
Sputnik V is already in 37 countries
Sputnik V, the vaccine that Argentina first bet on to combat the pandemic, was approved today in Guatemala, which is why it is registered in 37 countries with a total population of more than 1,100 million people.
To date, Sputnik V has been approved in Russia, Belarus, Argentina, Bolivia, Serbia, Algeria, Palestine, Venezuela, Paraguay, Turkmenistan, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Republic of Guinea, Tunisia, Armenia, Mexico, Nicaragua , Republika Srpska (entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Mongolia, Bahrain, Montenegro, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Gabon, San Marino, Ghana, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Guyana, Egypt, Honduras and Guatemala.
1h 12m ago
11:45
Pablo Javier Blanco
VIP vaccines: 18 reports and counting ...
The scandal over the VIP vaccines continues to accumulate complaints in Comodoro Py.
The first presentation, which was made by the
prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan
ex officio on the day the scandal broke out, was joined in those hours of crisis in the Government by another from the
Office of
the
Attorney for Administrative Investigations (PIA).
But later, complaints from individuals began to be circumvented, especially from serial complainants who top the ranking of lawsuits in Courts, and also those from opposition deputies.
There were more than 10 against former minister
Ginés González García
─who was even accused of bribery (request for bribes) by a laboratory that remained outside the management of Sputnik V.
There are also presentations against the journalist Horacio Verbitsky (for whom especially mounted the VIP vaccination in Health), against Carla Vizzoti, the new minister, against Santiago Cafiero, and other officials and VIP vaccinated, such as Eduardo Valdés and Jorge Taiana.
Since Wednesday, several complaints have also been filed against Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Fernán Quirós, his Minister of Health, accused of "privatizing the vaccination campaign" for giving doses to 7 entities.
Both were charged by the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli.
1h 32m ago
11:25
Cinemas reopen
Today the national government established the reopening of movie theaters in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and in the province of Buenos Aires, according to two provisions published today in the Official Gazette.
Through Administrative Decision 133/2021, the permit is established for the City's cinemas, which must operate with a capacity of 30 percent of the theater.
Meanwhile, through Administrative Decision 145/2021, it is indicated that cinemas in the province of Buenos Aires may open with a capacity that "initially may not exceed 50 percent per theater."
However, the Ministry of Production, Science and Technological Innovation of the province of Buenos Aires today issued a rule through which it established that, in a first stage, which will begin in March, the movie theaters of the district will be able to reopen their doors with a capacity of 30 percent.
In this way, both Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires cinemas will reopen their doors with the possibility of using 3 out of 10 seats in theaters.
1h 48m ago
11:08
Pfizer and a third dose of vaccine?
Pfizer announced that it is studying the possibility of applying a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine as part of a protection strategy against mutant versions of the coronavirus.
The drug store said it will offer a third dose to 144 volunteers among those who participated in the first trials in the United States last year.
You want to determine whether a third dose six to 12 months after the first two can activate the immune system to reject a mutant virus.
2h 1m ago
10:56
Irene Hartmann
Large prepaid companies refused to vaccinate their affiliates over 80: why
From the shoes of the porteños affiliated with the country's large prepaid companies, the feeling for a few days is one of certain confusion: Why are only seven private health entities receiving vaccines against the coronavirus to immunize their partners over 80 years old, While the largest companies in the sector - not counting many other medium-sized and small ones - do not participate in the movement promoted by the Government of the city?
Spokesmen for the prepaid companies with more partners nationwide explained that it is a "question of size."
The justification given by the two companies that have the largest number of affiliates is similar: if in this instance of the pandemic they had agreed to vaccinate their partners over 80 themselves, they would have "bought a problem."
More information.
2h 8m ago
10:49
"Persistent Covid", the concern of the WHO
One in ten people affected by coronavirus presents symptoms twelve weeks after having overcome the infection, revealed this Thursday the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), which urged to consider the so-called "persistent covid" a priority for health authorities.
According to a long-standing Covid-19 report presented by the European Observatory for Health Systems and Policies, around a quarter of sufferers continue to have symptoms a month later, a condition that ranges from chest and muscle pain to fatigue. , breathing problems and blackouts.
The likelihood of developing persistent coronavirus does not appear to be associated with the severity of the initial infection, and some groups are apparently more willing to suffer from it, such as health workers and women, according to the report.
More information.
2h 26m ago
10:31
Ginés' cousin got vaccinated
Ginés' cousin was vaccinated.
"Yes I was vaccinated at the San Felipe Hospital vaccination center, I was about to die of covid. I signed up in the registry of January 9, I did not falsify anything, I did not put myself as a risk group, nor am I Zannini who became a personal health, "said Pablo Humberto González, cousin and godson of the former Minister of Health of the Nation, who resigned in the midst of the VIP vaccination scandal.
"I am a first cousin (of Ginés), he must be finding out now that I got vaccinated. Ginés has no idea about this. He
sent himself a big shit like a house
, once I got vaccinated I campaigned for people to be vaccinate. The irregularity is not committed by me ... guys, "he said in A24.
The full note here.
2h 40m ago
10:17
904,000 Chinese vaccines
Aerolineas Argentinas confirmed the arrival to the country of 904,000 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Sinopharm in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Biological Products laboratory of the People's Republic of China.
Vaccine loading procedure is underway at Beijing International Airport.
If everything continues according to plan, at 9:50 p.m. tomorrow we will be landing at Ezeiza Airport.
Good return to all the @Aerolineas_AR team pic.twitter.com/FUiMmvDJWf
- Pablo Ceriani (@ceriani_pablo) February 24, 2021
The 904,000 doses were fully stowed in the warehouses of Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus 330 -200 and in special containers called “envirotainers” that have maximum efficiency for the transfer of this type of cargo and active temperature control since the vaccines must be preserved at a minimum of 2 degrees and a maximum of 8.
This is the fifth flight made by Aerolineas Argentinas in search of vaccines, this being the first to be made to the People's Republic of China.
In the previous 4 flights, from Moscow, 1,220,000 doses of Sputnik V were brought into the country.