Ignacio Ortelli
07/22/2021 3:46 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/22/2021 3:46 PM
For the Government,
the extensive letter sent by the presidential adviser Cecilia Nicolini
"was successful" in the claim that was proposed to get the Russian Fund for Direct Investment to speed up the delivery of second doses of Sputnik V. Far from questioning the leakage of the mail sent on July 7, in Casa Rosada they made their own the complaint of the official who, together with the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, was in charge of negotiating vaccines and they went to the crossroads of the version that realized that in Russia not even They read the note: they detailed that 500 liters of component 2 will arrive on Monday, equivalent to 800 thousand doses and that the following week another 500 liters will arrive for the Richmond laboratory to produce locally.
"
The claim is real, it was not isolated (from Nicolini) and it worked: it already had its effect,
" they highlighted near Alberto Fernández, who closely follows all the negotiations for the vaccines.
The situation with the delay in the delivery of vaccines from Moscow was no exception.
More: due to the questions about the origin of the vaccines that the Government received, the link with Russia caused the head of state to be especially involved, so the letter received his endorsement.
Alberto Fernández, with Cecilia Nicolini.
"
Who says they didn't read it?
It's a lie! Of course they read it and responded by phone. On Monday, components come to make the vaccine. It's a fact," they went out to the crossing, with some annoyance, from the environment presidential.
Beyond the official position, two weeks have passed since that letter in which the letter was sent and according to the contract to which Nicolini alluded, there are still some 13 million doses 2 of Sputnik to be received, in a context in which -estimated in the Government -
there are more than 2 million people over 60 years of age
who are waiting to complete the vaccination schedule and about 800 thousand people have exceeded 90 days from the application of the first dose.
Nicolini even
emphasized the deadlines missed by the Russian Fund
, not only for the shipment of component 2, but also for the approval of those manufactured in Argentina. "We had been told that this process could take between 10 and 15 days. It is July 7 and it is not ready yet and it will not be ready by July 9, as the President kindly requested, taking into account the days that are needed." , was one of the consultant's complaints.
On the other hand, in line with the sayings of Vizzotti, who considered that it
is "a very common practice to
send (notes) to suppliers and discuss contracts, congratulate and pressure, in quotation marks, so that the contracts are fulfilled", in the Government they relativized the tension with Moscow. But they tried to show that "Argentina has a firm stance" on the case. "It
shows that we do not make preferences with any laboratory and with any country
, as the opposition repeats," they argued, despite the fact that in the note Nicolini warns that the delays in the delivery of vaccines "are leaving very few options to continue fighting for you. and this project ".
"(Nicolini) refers to the project and development of the vaccine. It is true that Argentina was one of the first countries to sign a contract for Sputnik V when other laboratories could not guarantee the delivery of vaccines. And now contracts are being explored with those who can To comply.
Neither before nor now was there an ideological bias
, "clarified a source with an office in Casa Rosada.
This Thursday, however, the President once again charged the opposition for the criticism he received when he negotiated the contract with Russia at the end of last year.
"They told us that the vaccine was poison, that we were bringing any crap to vaccinate. They had to wait for an international publication (by The Lancet). As Jauretche said, it was not enough for them what our scientists said in the Anmat. They needed a magazine in English and there the vaccine became wonderful, "he reproached.
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