The country is advancing positively in its production of vaccines against the coronavirus, on which the Minister of Science and Technology, Daniel Filmusgave details about it.
As he referred the mandataryArgentina will have two national vaccines by the end of this year, which, in addition to being a great achievement for the country, will allow more people to access them, as expressed Daniel Filmus.
“If things go as expected, we will have that possibility of having two national vaccines. They are not going to totally replace the vaccines that are imported, but they will be used to apply and export”, he stated. Daniel Filmus.
The minister also stated that thanks to the nation’s human and technological capital, Argentina can become a leading vaccine producer in all of Latin America.
“We are one of the two countries in Latin America in a position to manufacture and that makes an important advance,” he said. films in dialogue with El Destape Radio, where he also assured that most of the doses will be exported.
This in turn will serve so that more citizens of the world have equal access to immunization to combat the coronavirus pandemic, which has left thousands of dead on the planet.
Daniel Filmus explained how the national vaccine production is going
the minister He explained that the research is well advanced, since the programs are in the clinical trial phase.
“There are four lines in development and two of them are now practically starting clinical trials, that’s why everything suggests that before the end of the year Argentina will have its own vaccine”, he indicated.
The president also expressed that despite the fact that the country has significant vaccination coverage, it will be necessary to have more doses to apply the reinforcements.
This is because the national authorities anticipate that the vaccine requires an annual application for greater effectiveness.
