translated from Spanish: 350,000 doses of Sputnik V component 2 arrived

A new aerolineas Argentinas flight arrived in the country from Moscow with more than 700,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, to continue the Vaccination Plan and complete schemes of those who so far received the first component. In the Airbus 330-200, registration LV-GIF that landed at the international airport of Ezeiza at 20.15, 350,000 doses belonging to component 2 of the Russian vaccine and 359,085 doses 1 were brought. 

The pressure for the arrival of second doses increased in the last week from the need to complete the vaccination schedules due to the advance of the Delta variant, more contagious than the rest of the variants that circulate now. With this new embarkation, Argentina received a total of 25,706,730 vaccines to combat the pandemic and 36% of the population is already vaccinated with at least one dose. Those who received both are 4,022,134 people.

In parallel, the second dose of Sputnik V will begin production on Monday at the Richmond Laboratory, which received the active component from Moscow. They will start with 150,000 doses, reported the owner Marcelo Figueiras.Al heat of the arrival of millions of doses and national production, provinces such as Jujuy enabled free vaccination for over 18 years and Buenos Aires the same scheme but for all risk groups that have not yet been inoculated.

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