A Aerolineas Argentinas flight He left this afternoon for China to bring a new shipment of vaccines Sinopharm and another left during the early morning towards Russia looking for doses of Sputnik V.
The flight AR1076 Heading to China took off from Ezeiza International Airport at 13.00. The Airbus 330-200, registration LV-FVI, will make an intermediate stopover in Madrid for refueling, both on the way out and on the way back, and will be back in Argentina on Tuesday around 7pm.
Its about fourth in the series of ten flights that the company confirmed for July to China, from where 8 million doses of the vaccine manufactured by the China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp. will be brought. third flight departed this Saturday and arrived in Beijing after noon this Sunday.
“There are 8 million vaccines in a period of 15 days, a very large logistical effort that allows us to bring a very important quantity of doses and that will allow us to continue vaccinating at a good rate, “said Pablo Ceriani, president of Airlines.
At 3.14 at dawn, meanwhile, the flight departed AR1064 bound for Sheremetievo airport, in Moscow, Russia, whose return is scheduled for 18 this Monday.
Airlines has been completed so far 30 flights to transport and supply vaccines, of which 9 were destined for Beijing, from where 6,731,200 doses were brought to the country, and 21 were destined for Moscow, from where 11,263,375 doses of the vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Institute were transported, so in the Total operations carried out by the flag line were transferred 17,994,575 doses.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 28,383,730 doses arrived in the country, of which 11,265,830 correspond to Sputnik V, (9,375,670 for component 1 and 1,890,160 for component 2); 7,536,000 to Sinopharm; 580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield, 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO), and 7,057,900 to AstraZeneca-Oxford, whose active ingredient was produced in Argentina.
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