Silvia Gomez
07/12/2021 17:19
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 07/12/2021 5:19 PM
With the arrival to the country of three shipments of vaccines, with a total of
2,051,000 million doses,
the City will focus on
completing the vaccination
schedules of older adults
who have already completed the
12-week
interval
between both applications and will continue scaling the campaign towards the youngest in Buenos Aires territory. On the one hand, completing the vaccination among those
over 30 who have already registered
. And on the other hand, opening the registration to those
over 25
by the end of this week; it could be between Thursday and Friday.
And in parallel, evaluating - and mainly, internally debating -
the possibility of opening the spontaneous demand for vaccines
, as is already the case in the Province of Buenos Aires where, since Saturday, in some districts the first dose is applied to those over 40 years without a previous shift. In principle this week, the City will begin to immunize homeless people; of course, due to the vulnerability they are going through, they will
not need to register.
Throughout this Monday, three shipments with vaccines arrive: the first of
733,000 doses of AstraZeneca
, from the United States.
These are vaccines whose active component was manufactured in Argentina and were packaged in that country and also in Mexico.
In the afternoon,
550,000 second members of Sputnik V
arrive from Moscow
.
And at night,
768,000 doses of Sinopharm
land from China
.
Of this total volume of vaccines, the City could receive between 133,315 and 143,570 (between 6.5% and 7%).
Of these totals,
between 35,000 and 38,000 are Sputnik V.
Vaccination in the City.
With the doses that arrive this Monday, they will advance to complete schedules and on the weekend they would begin to enroll those over 25.
According to data from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, there are currently around
60,000 people
who have completed the 12-week interval between the application of the first and second dose.
Most with Sputnik V. Component 2 of this immunizer is different from the first.
This circumstance, and the global shortage of these vaccines, generates growing concern and
anxiety among those waiting for the second dose.
The City expects to have the vaccines in 48 hours.
"We hope to be able to
apply them between Wednesday and Friday,
" informed sources from the local Ministry of Health.
Regarding the younger population, the area informed
Clarín
that
135 thousand residents over 35 years old and another 117 thousand over 30 years old
were registered.
"The quinitlo +35 is practically vaccinated, and there are about 25 thousand people over the age of 30. 30 years ", they detailed.
In parallel, and in view of the delay in the arrival of the second doses of the Russian vaccine, the Argentine health authorities are already
testing
the
combination of doses
from different laboratories.
In the City, the study combines component one of Sputnik V with AstraZeneca and Sinopharm.
In the Province, research is being carried out with six possible combinations, logically with the three vaccines available in the country.
With the current rate of entry of vaccines, and the Buenos Aires territorial campaign,
more than 50% of the total population is inoculated with at least one dose
: according to official data, between December 29 and July 11, 1,644 were applied .616 first doses and
426,529 completed immunization with the second.
And although the City has logistics to apply up to 35 thousand vaccines per day -depending on the number of vaccinations and personnel-, many times the campaign shows very low inoculation figures, as happened on Sunday, when 5,686 doses were applied.
This situation generates an internal debate in the Buenos Aires government. There are officials who understand that it would be convenient to
enable vaccination on demand, that is, without shifts
. By age groups and certifying the address of those who come to the vaccination centers. They evaluate that this way they could reach the neighbors who for various reasons have
not yet registered:
"Although vaccination in general is
widespread
in the City, there are people who need one more option to make the decision. And we believe that this possibility by approaching the posts without a turn and without registering previously, it
can help to continue summoning those who are missing ".
But the detractors of this idea understand that this could happen later, when the City has a larger stock of vaccines.
Which is not happening today.
For example, according to official data -available on the official
website- 1,644,616 first doses of 1,649,883 received were applied
;
in other words, the remaining available is 5,267 doses.
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