translated from Spanish: Carla Vizzotti: “spring is going to be with much more relief”

The Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, said a few moments ago that “very soon” Argentina will be “close to 40 million doses” of vaccines against the coronavirus and that, from this, “spring will be with much more relief than people would have thought.” Vizzotti spoke from England, where he traveled with presidential adviser Cecilia Nicolini, as part of the exchange of experiences on vaccination strategies against the Covid-19 coronavirus that Argentina has been carrying out with that country. In a conversation with Radio 10, the official was optimistic about the progress of vaccination at the local level, while stressing that there is a low percentage of “anti-vaccinations” in Argentine society.

“Very soon we will be close to 40 million doses, spring is going to be with much more relief than people would have thought,” he said. Asked about the Delta variant of coronavirus, she said that “it is much more transmissible, but it has less lethality” in relation to what has been seen in the United Kingdom, where it is predominant, but clarified that in our country “we still do not have a predominance” of that strain.” We must accelerate the second dose” and that is why in Argentina “the intervals of the Sinopharm vaccine have been shortened to 4 weeks and Sputnik and AstraZeneca to 8 weeks”. “We still do not have a predominance of circulation of the Delta variant,” clarified the head of the health portfolio, although she recalled that “we already have 22 isolates of this variant that came from abroad,” mainly from the United States.

He also remarked that “experts estimate that the Delta variant is going to be the one that wins the race among the other variants” around the world. The official said that on her trip she was able to talk “with the person who developed the vaccine at the University of Oxford”, who “has enormous humility” and “had been working for a long time” on vaccines against coronaviruses, a fact that she compared with “the scientists of Gamaleia” who developed the Russian vaccine Sputnik V.Ultimately, she stressed that “the number of hospitalizations is much lower” with very few people in intensive care in this third wave and noted that “tomorrow they are planning to lift the restriction measures and put a lot of focus on individual responsibility for care” in that country. In this regard, he closed by pointing out that among these measures “the chin is going to be for optional use in closed places” and said that from here we will have to “see how this issue evolves.”

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