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Coronavirus in Argentina: 1.2 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine arrive on two Aerolineas Argentinas flights

2021-02-28T18:58:19.842Z


It was confirmed by official sources. It is the largest shipment received to date. The first plane will land this Sunday at 7.30pm.


02/28/2021 3:22 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 02/28/2021 3:33 PM

In a context of delays in the immunization process in Argentina and after the

VIP vaccination

scandal

, this Sunday afternoon the first of the two Aerolineas Argentinas planes that the Government sent on Saturday to bring more Sputnik vaccines will arrive from Russia. V. According to official sources informed

Clarín

, it will be the largest shipment received so far of the Russian vaccine:

1.2 million doses

.

Thus, the country will reach 4 million doses received since the start of the vaccination plan.

"The first Aerolineas flight from Moscow is on its way to our country and

we estimate it will arrive in Ezeiza at 7:30 p.m.

As for the second, it is in the process of loading at the Sheremetyevo airport and as soon as it ends we will be able to estimate its time of

arrival

. arrival, "Pablo Ceriani, president of the flag carrier, wrote on his Twitter account.


Official sources confirmed to

Clarín

that between both flights they will bring about 1.2 million doses, although they did not specify how many will be of the first and second component.

For now, the pilot Alejandro Chebar revealed that the first flight would bring 

"500 thousand doses

.

"

"We came two planes with three hours of difference between one and the other; I came in the second. The first plane, after waiting 12 hours above the plane at the airport, received the promised doses, which are approximately 500,000. loaded and already departed, it is in flight, "said the pilot from Russia, in dialogue with

Radio 10.

The first @Aerolineas_AR flight from Moscow is on its way to our country and we estimate that it will arrive in Ezeiza at 7:30 p.m.

As for the second, it is in the loading process at Sheremetyevo airport and as soon as it is finished we will be able to estimate its arrival time.

- Pablo Ceriani (@ceriani_pablo) February 28, 2021

Regarding the second flight, for which he is responsible, Chebar pointed out that there were delays in delivery and could return in the early hours of this Monday.

"The information we have is that the second shipment will arrive in a few hours, which I estimate will be few. I estimate that we will be arriving tonight (on Sunday) or early tomorrow (Monday)," he completed.

Sources of the flag airline consulted by

Clarín

reported that they have not yet confirmed the arrival time of this second plane.

This operation is the fifth carried out by the Government in Russia, after those carried out on 12 this month (400 thousand doses), on December 24 (300 thousand), on January 16 (300 thousand) and on January 28 ( 220 thousand).

Thus, added to the new shipment, Argentina will have received

2,420,000 doses

of Sputnik V, just over 12% of the 20 million planned between January and February in the vaccination plan that the Government had released at the end of January.

Meanwhile, this Sunday morning a batch of 96,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus arrived from Beijing, China, in addition to the 904,000 that arrived last Thursday.

Air France flight KL701 that left Beijing made a stopover at the Amsterdam airport before arriving in Argentina.

On this occasion, Air France KLM used a Boeing 777-300W, which has more space for cargo, in order to ensure the shipment of vaccines.

As announced by the Government, the arrival of the doses of Sinopharm will allow to begin immunizing teaching personnel throughout the country.

In this way, if one takes into account that the 580,000 doses of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine, developed by India with technology from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, Argentina reaches

4 million doses

received since the start of the plan for vaccination.

DD

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Source: clarin

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