“In the next few days, as planned, 300 thousand doses of the second component will arrive, to complete the vaccination schedules that have started. Then, the delivery schedule will continue until 100% of the acquired doses of both components are completed, as reported, “he indicated. The official said that since the beginning of the pandemic, “sanitary actions to respond” to the epidemiological situation were analyzed and “negotiations were initiated with all producers to have safe and effective vaccines in sufficient quantity and in a timely manner.”
“We analyzed in consensus with experts, experts and the 24 jurisdictions, the possible vaccination strategies to achieve the goal we yearn for: to move towards the beginning of the end of the pandemic and save as many lives as possible,” he concluded. Is that on Monday Vizzotti had stated that “it is analyzed to defer the application of the second dose to vaccinate more people.”
In this way, the member of the Ministry of Health pointed out the possibility of starting to immunize more people, without having concluded the complete vaccination scheme for those who had already received their first dose: after the first application, they must pass at least 21 days and up to 60 to receive the second. However, a controversy arose that ended when President Alberto Fernández ruled out that option.
In line with Vizzotti, Governor Axel Kicillof confirmed that the second dose of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19 will not be deferred to those who have already received the first.
“There was always talk of giving the two doses to be given, always,” Kicillof emphasized at a press conference in Santa Clara del Mar, after statements by the Deputy Minister of Health in that sense generated confusion. Regarding the local vaccination plan, Kicillof stressed that “there are already 51,000 health workers who have received the first dose.”
Meanwhile, he pointed out that “with the arrival planned for February of a second batch of one and a half million vaccines for the Province, to the 169 hospitals that are operating today, 350 schools will be added in the 135 districts.” Buenos Aires residents over 18 years of age must register on the site www.vacunatepba.gba.gob.ar in order to receive information on the campaign and wait for their shifts in the following stages.
“To take care that we are already vaccinating,” remarked the provincial governor after a meeting with mayors from the Atlantic coast, adding: “Freedom is the vaccine.”
In addition, the Aerolineas Argentinas flight will depart tomorrow that will bring the second batch of 300,000 Sputnik V vaccines from Moscow, Russia, and will return to the country on Saturday. This was confirmed by the president of the flag carrier, Pablo Ceriani, through his Twitter account. “This Thursday at 9 pm the second Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Moscow to bring another 300,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to the country. A coordinated work between different government areas to fulfill this fundamental logistical task in the fight against Covid -19 ”, said the national official.
The head of the company explained that “the flight, which is scheduled to arrive in the country on Saturday at noon, will last approximately 40 hours.”
“It will be made up of a total of 20 people to be able to develop the operation without technical stops,” said Ceriani.
At the same time, the president of Aerolineas Argentinas recalled the role that the state company had in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. “We start 2020 with repatriation flights, we continue with the transfers of medical supplies from China and at the beginning of 2021 we have to go find the vaccines. We would never have wanted to carry out these tasks and we hope they are the last in the framework of this pandemic ”, he concluded.
The first flight to bring Sputnik V vaccines had arrived on December 24, with a first batch of 300,000 doses: Health workers were the first to begin to be immunized.
Now, with the arrival of the second round, the vaccination of that group will be completed, while a batch of doses is expected in February that will expand the range of those reached.
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