The Government will distribute more than 5 million vaccines against coronavirus

More than 5 million vaccines against the coronavirus will be distributed in the coming weeks throughout the country by the Government, which will be used to start and complete vaccination schedules to continue advancing the immunization campaign against Covid 19.

Within the framework of the Strategic Plan for Vaccination against Covid-19, 5,162,895 doses will be distributed, of which 2,070,600 correspond to Modern; 2,639,520 to Pfizer; 196,275 are Sputnik component 1; and another 256,500 are Sputnik component 2, the Health Ministry reported in a statement.

The distribution began last Tuesday with 1,888,380 doses of Pfizer, which were distributed on Thursday to the 24 jurisdictions and will allow to continue completing vaccination schedules and reinforcements against Covid 19.

Added to this is the delivery of 196,275 doses of Sputnik component 1; another 1,320,480 doses of Moderna and 751,140 doses of Pfizer.

In addition, next week another 750,120 doses of Moderna will be delivered, while 256,500 doses of Sputnik component 2 will be distributed on Tuesday, January 18.

The more than 5 million vaccines will make it possible to continue initiating and completing schedules, as well as providing reinforcements to further advance the vaccination campaign against Covid 19, “which already has 85% of the total population vaccinated with one dose and one 72% with two doses “, highlighted the health portfolio.

He also recalled that in order to offer maximum protection to the population against the exponential increase in cases and the introduction of new variants with greater transmissibility, the ministry adopted last Wednesday the recommendation of the National Immunization Commission (CoNaIn).

In this sense, it indicated the application of the booster dose to the entire population 18 years of age or older, at least 4 months (120 days) after completing the initial scheme.

The health portfolio expressed, on the other hand, that taking into account that during January and February a significant number of people will comply with the recommended interval, this dose distribution will also favor access to vaccine reinforcements.

In that context, he recalled that with this objective, the last meeting of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa) on January 5 was also agreed on the possibility that people can be vaccinated in locations other than their place of residence.

Since the beginning of the campaign, Argentina has received 101,949,135 vaccines, of which 30,000,000 correspond to Sinopharm of the bilateral agreement; 1,672,800 to Sinopharm through the WHO Covax mechanism; and 20,979,335 to Sputnik V (12,124,930 for component 1 and 8,854,405 for component 2).

He also received vaccines of which 20,459,500 correspond to those of AstraZeneca and Oxford, the active principle of which was produced in Argentina; 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca by Covax mechanism; 580,000 to AstraZeneca Covishield; 3,563,400 to AstraZeneca donation; 3,500,000 to Modern donation; 2,643,340 to Moderna under bilateral agreement; 12,902,760 to Pfizer; and 1,704,000 to Cansino.

According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, until Saturday 97,247,113 doses of vaccines were distributed throughout the territory and 79,219,182 were applied.

Of this total, 38,573,462 people were inoculated with the first dose, 33,401,119 have the complete vaccination scheme, 2,755,323 received the additional dose and 4,489,278 the booster dose.