The flight left this morning at 1.59 from Ezeiza International Airport
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Argentina will count this Wednesday with more than a million vaccines against the coronavirus to reinforce the immunization plan carried out by the National Government and will have exceeded the 15 million doses received since the start of the pandemic.
Tonight, at 10:15 p.m., depart from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires a flight from the Netherlands company, KLM, to land this Wednesday at 6.15 in Ezeiza with 657,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).
While In the afternoon the arrival of the seventeenth flight of Aerolneas Argentinas from Moscow is expected, with doses of Sputnik V.
The shipment that will arrive in the morning at Ezeiza will complete the shipment of 861,600 doses, which began with a batch of 204,000 vaccines that were received on Sunday, May 23.
At the same time, the chancellor of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, assured that “over the weekend” Argentina will receive 800,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine whose active principle was made in our country and finally packaged in Mexico.
“We finally have available the vaccines approved by laboratories in Mexico. We only need the liberation of London, which we estimate should be this week, so that at the end of the weekend there will be a flight to take them to Argentina what corresponds to them”, said the chancellor during a rally held today in the capital of the Aztec nation.
The last games
These games will be added to those that arrived on Monday and Sunday; on Monday there were 843,600 in a flight of the company Latam Cargo Colombia and 609,965 that arrived from Russia in the sixteenth service of the flag line to that destination and on Sunday 204,000 AstraZeneca vaccines that are part of the WHO Covax mechanism, on a flight of the Netherlands company, KLM, which landed in Ezeiza at 6.14 from Amsterdam.
The seventeenth flight of Aerolneas Argentinas took off this Tuesday at 1.59 from Ezeiza to the capital of the Russian Federation, while yesterday, 843,600 vaccines from AstraZeneca jointly manufactured with Mexico arrived in the first place.
The Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GIF, under the number AR1062, the same aircraft that arrived yesterday from Moscow, is scheduled to land at Sheremetievo International Airport around midnight, 18 in our country.
It is estimated that the return, under the number AR1063, will start around 4.30 local, 22.30 in Argentina, and the arrival at Ezeiza International Airport will be around 4.30 in the morning.
Aerolneas flights
“There are two flights that arrive within 48 hours. This will allow the vaccination rhythm to be maintained and means to continue taking steps to get out of this pandemic that is causing so much damage”, said Pablo Ceriani, owner of the flag line.
Aerolneas Argentinas has made 16 flights to the Russian Federation in which a total of 7,643,255 doses were transferred and, in addition, 5 flights were made to Beijing, People’s Republic of China, in which 3,659,200 vaccines arrived in the country. Sinopharm.
In this way, In 20 completed flights, Aerolneas Argentinas provided 11,302,455 doses of vaccines against Covid-19.
The doses that arrived
Between doses of Sputnik V, both of the first and the second component; AstraZeneca Covishield dosing; of the AstraZeneca of joint manufacture with Mexico and the Chinese Sinopharm, until this Tuesday Argentina received 14,355,710 vaccines in a progression that began on December 24 of last year.
Of this total, 6,585,550 correspond to doses of the first component of Sputnik V, 1,060,160 of the second component of the same vaccine; 4,000,000 from the Sinopharm; 580,000 from AstraZeneca Covishield; 1,286,400 from AstraZeneca for the Covax system and 843,600 from AstraZeneca Oxford.
Official sources indicated that, during the last week, a record of 1,146,638 vaccines was applied.
On Monday, May 17, 190,538 inoculations were performed, on Tuesday 190,557, on Wednesday 165,596, on Thursday 209,261, on Friday 199,877, on Saturday 108,891 and yesterday Sunday 81,918.
Since the immunization process began 12,612,752 vaccines have already been distributed in all jurisdictions, of which 11,149,468 have already been applied: 8,735,231 people received the first dose and 2,414,237 both.
The agreement with Mexico
Esther means, President Fernndez assured that the production of batches of AstraZeneca vaccines that will be shipped in the coming weeks from Mexico “represent the independence of being able to have our vaccines”, in reference to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and the difficulties faced by the region in accessing this fundamental resource to immunize against the coronavirus and prevent infections and deaths from continuing to grow.
The head of state made this statement while holding a videoconference with his counterpart from Mexico, Lpez Obrador.
“Sufficient batches of AstraZeneca vaccines are being produced to ship to Argentina, as well as other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean “, confirmed Lpez Obrador in this context, thus promising continuity to the arrival of doses that began yesterday and will continue tomorrow.
For its part, The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, assured from the Federal District of Mexico that the start-up of the joint production of vaccines against the coronavirus represents “a very important day for Mexico and for Argentina”, by participating in an event with Lpez Obrador.
“Each vaccine is a lower risk of hospitalization and death for each person who receives it,” Vizzotti remarked in a brief speech made from the National Palace, the seat of the Mexican government, after Lpez Obrador held a videoconference with President Fernndez. .
Regarding the agreement for the production of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccines between mAbxience laboratories, from Argentina, and Liomont, from Mexico, together with the Slim Foundation, the official recalled that “this collaboration was agreed in August” with the aim of making it possible “a production for all Latin America”.
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