Guido Carelli Lynch
03/12/2021 7:41 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/12/2021 7:41 PM
The comparisons are hateful.
While Chile has already vaccinated 30 percent of its population against the coronavirus, Argentina only immunized 4 percent of its population.
For the Government, there is only one reason that explains the contrast: the number of doses it accumulated.
Despite the numbers, President Alberto Fernández and his Cabinet are convinced that next week there will be a turning point in the application of vaccines.
In one week, the 24 jurisdictions went from applying 100,000 doses per day to 170,000.
Meanwhile, the head of state who
will sign the DNU in the next few hours with the extension of the new DISPO stage
-without changes until April 9- is committed to maximizing care and closing the economy as little as possible.
Alberto Fernández during the vaccination committee meeting at Casa Rosada.
In a new meeting of the vaccination committee, the head of state analyzed the epidemiological situation in the country and the region and how to scale up the application of vaccines.
However, the
outbreaks in neighboring countries
- where there is community transmission of the new strains - and the bottleneck in world production, added to the stockpiling of the central countries, convinced the President and his Cabinet that the second wave will arrive before the majority of the population is immunized.
“We have to become aware of the risks and take preventive measures.
You have to buy time with prevention and care to continue bringing vaccines and
restrict as little as possible,
"said the president before the ministers involved in the vaccination operation.
In the Executive they do not want a rebound and restrictions to interrupt the rebound of the economy in a decisive electoral year.
"We learned something," said an official who participated in the meeting in which they were, among others;
the Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero;
the Ministers of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and of Security, Sabina Frederic;
the Interior Ministers, Eduardo de Pedro;
of Defense, Agustín Rossi;
of Social Development, Daniel Arroyo;
of Foreign Relations, of Transport, Mario Meoni;
and from Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens.
Meanwhile, the Government finalizes a new communication campaign to prevent infections and measures that
preserve the functioning of industry and commerce
.
In the Government they are excited about acquiring a vaccination rate of
1 million doses per week
.
It would represent an acceleration of almost 25 percent.
In the last 7 days, 784 thousand Argentines were vaccinated.
In the Executive they see with good eyes that neither the citizenship nor the opposition - unlike what happened with Sputnik V - does not question the vaccine of the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, until now only enabled for those under 60 years of age.
Three million will arrive from China next week.
In the next few days, 500 thousand vaccines of the 4 million that arrived in the country will be finished.
Before Vizzotti and the presidential advisor Cecilia Nicolini, Fernández gave the instruction to deepen contacts with all vaccine producers to continue bringing as many as possible to Argentina.
"Just as we gain time to strengthen the health system, a message of care and alert must be transmitted to the population with what is happening on the continent," said the president.
Unlike last year, infections are even in the AMBA and in the rest of the provinces.
In the City, there was an increase in cases while Mendoza is the slowest province in the application of cases, said officials of the Executive after the meeting in the Eva Perón Room of Casa Rosada.
