811 thousand Astrazeneca vaccines arrive today and on Monday a total of 20 million received is reached
Argentina will exceed the 20 million coronavirus vaccines delivered to the country on Monday since the start of the vaccination plan, after themore than 800 thousand doses of AstraZeneca received this Saturday, which will be added to the more than 930 thousand doses from the same laboratory that will arrive on Monday.
A flight of the Aeromxico company, which landed at 20.56at the Ezeiza international airport, brought in its warehouses 811,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, constituting the first shipment that arrives directly from Mexico and that is part of the bilateral agreement, by which the active principle is produced in Argentina and then formulated and packaged in that country.
While, on Monday – approximately at 6:30 – 934,200 doses will arrive from the same laboratory, also for joint production with Mexico, this being the fourth shipment of this type of vaccine, which will be added to the 843,600 doses received on May 27, the 2,148,600 that arrived on May 31 and the 811,000 this Saturday.
Some 811,000 Astrazeneca vaccines will arrive in the country tonight.
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20 million
Argentina will reach the figure of 20,677,145: 9,415,745 correspond to Sputnik V (7,875,585 from component 1 and 1,540,160 from component 2), 4,000,000 from Sinopharm, 580,000 AstraZeneca – Covishield, 1,944,000 AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism and 4,737,400 will be AstraZeneca-University of Oxford doses.
The Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, stressed that the vaccination plan against the coronavirus “has been advancing with a very firm step” throughout the country, but He warned that in the meantime “care should not be relaxed” since the coronavirus pandemic “did not end.”
“The vaccines are coming and there is a lot of hope, expectation, to turn the page””
Santiago Cafiero
“While we continue to vaccinate, we must not relax the care, thinking that this is overcome. We have many deaths, more than 7,500 people admitted to intensive care units; this is far from being overcome,” she said in statements to the Miter and radio stations. Network.
“The vaccines are arriving and there is much hope, expectation, to turn the page,” he said, given the announcement that next week Argentina will exceed 20 million doses received since the start of the vaccination plan.
On Friday, new contracts were also announced with Sinopharm for 2 million more doses and with Cansino for 5.4 million Convidencia vaccines, whose authorization “with an emergency nature” was specified in the last hours by the Ministry of Health, after the approval of the National Administration. of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat).
Another 934,200 doses will arrive on Monday from the same laboratory.
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The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, signed the resolution that authorizes the emergency use of the Convidecia vaccine, from the company Cansino Biologics INC, and that allows progress in the agreement for 5.4 million doses.
The Convidencia vaccine (Recombinant Novel Coronavirus Vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) is from the Cansino Biologics Inc laboratory (Beijing Institute of Biotechnology), and it is a single dose vaccine, the third developed by China, after Sinovac and Sinopharm.
84.5% of all people over 60 are already vaccinated with the first dose”
The arrival of a greater number of doses allowed the National Government together with the 24 jurisdictions of the country, through the Strategic Vaccination Plan, to once again reach the record of daily vaccinations with 376,815 inoculations applied this week.
The health portfolio reported that to date 84.5% of all people over 60 have been vaccinated with the first dose.
If disaggregated by age group, 86% of people aged 60 to 69 also received a dose, 88% of those aged 70 to 79 were vaccinated, and 79.5% of those aged 80 or over. more, they were inoculated with at least one dose.
The arrival of a greater quantity of doses allowed to get to apply 376,815 vaccines in one day.
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