04/10/2021 10:06
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/10/2021 11:18
After the Chief of the Nation's Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, indicated that the provinces and the City of Buenos Aires were authorized to negotiate the purchase of vaccines against the coronavirus, the Federal Capital announced that it would try to acquire them on its own.
On the morning of this Saturday, the vice chief of the Buenos Aires Government, Diego Santilli, explained that the district will try to negotiate with
Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson
.
"We are going to start the long journey of trying, with the vaccine producers, to get doses," said the official in dialogue with radio Miter.
"It occurs from the change of strategies ordered by the Chief of the Nation's Cabinet," Santilli explained. But he acknowledged that the steps will not be easy: "Last year all the ministers and health authorities of the provinces unified the work in the national health authority.
And there is no government that has been able to buy vaccines
outside the national states
, because they are a rare commodity ”.
The official stressed that Cafiero's words represent
"a change in strategy in the national government
.
"
“One can try to work is an agreement with AstraZeneca.
In the United States, the laboratories already have a volume and there we will have to try to
find a way with Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson
, knowing that it is not an easy way, ”said Santilli.
On the expected deadlines for the Buenos Aires government, Santilli analyzed that the Buenos Aires administrations may provide "solutions
for the end of the year or after the winter
in Argentina."
"I think that one can begin to think about this possibility for later, what the laboratories have committed they have to complete and that is still missing", he said.
Minutes later, in dialogue with TN, Santilli acknowledged that the City has vaccines available to apply
until Thursday of next week
: “We need the vaccines that are committed for April, May and June.
We received 569 thousand vaccines in the city and we already applied 507 thousand and on Thursday of next week we will run out of vaccines if another shipment does not arrive ”.
Santilli also analyzed how they observe the vaccination process in the United States from the City.
There the immunization is already massive and it is an important producer of vaccines, so it could be that
mid-spring the possibility of acquiring doses will open
, reflected the deputy chief of government of the City.
Asked about the change in attitude of the national government, Santilli pointed out that the City is going to try to "contribute something to the citizens."
"We pick up the glove and try it," he
synthesized.
This Friday, in addition, the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Felipe Miguel, told La Red radio: "Knowing how difficult it is going to be,
we are going to try
."
"We are going to go out and make every effort to acquire vaccines," he said.
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