Covid Vaccination Argentina

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Delta fears grip Argentina, prompting authorities into action

More than 300 people in Buenos Aires City, Córdoba Province forced into isolation after at least 19 people test positive for Delta strain. President goes into preventative isolation after returning from overseas trip.

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26 July 2021

La vacuna de Moderna contra el COVID-19 será incluida en el estudio de combinación de dosis que se realiza en Argentina

Lo anunció el Ministerio de Salud de la Nación. La investigación evalúa la inmunogenicidad y seguridad del uso de dos dosis distintas de las vacunas contra el virus SARS-CoV-2 que se aplican en Argentina y compara esquemas de vacunación heterólogos y homólogos

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Moderna's vaccine against COVID-19 will be included in the dose combination study being carried out in ARG. It was announced by the Ministry of Health of the Nation. The research evaluates the immunogenicity and safety of the use of two different doses of the vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that are applied in ARG and compares heterologous and homologous vaccination schedules....

 

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31 July 2021

Carla Vizzotti prometió que a fines de agosto Argentina producirá 1,5 millones de la 2a dosis de Sputnik V

La ministra de Salud dijo que la próxima semana arribarán otros 300 litros del componente activo al Laboratorio Richmond, que fabrica la vacuna rusa en el país

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Carla Vizzotti promised that by the end of August Argentina will produce 1.5 million of the 2nd dose of Sputnik V. The Minister of Health said that next week another 300 liters of the active component will arrive at the Richmond Laboratory, which manufactures the Russian vaccine in the country...

...."We are going to produce in Argentina 1.5 million of the second dose of Sputnik V by the end of August," announced the Minister. Until the last week there were more than 3 million people in the country who had expired the deadline to receive the second dose of Sputnik V, whose component is different than the first. They are almost half of the more than 6.6 million who wait in the country to complete the inoculation with the vaccine from Russia. "We expect that 60% of those over 50 years of age will have the complete scheme by the end of August with Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopham or the traceability of vaccines that we can obtain," emphasized Vizzotti in reference to replacing the second dose of Sputnik with the other two vaccines....

 

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Lacking a million Sputnik V vaccines, San Juan wants its 18 million euros back

Provincial government’s contract for shots, signed with German middlemen, has fallen through, adding to the claims of the national government against the Russian lab. Now San Juan wants its money back.

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1 August 2021 actualized at 10:52pm

Covid: Fernán Quirós confirma 35 positivos de Delta en la Ciudad y advierte que "la variante va a gatillar los casos"

El ministro de Salud porteño aclaró que hasta ahora no está documentada la circulación comunitaria de la cepa en CABA. Escandalosas revelaciones sobre el mundo de las fotomultas que involucra a funcionarios María Eugenia Vidal y Patricia Bullrich se mostraron juntas: la frase despechada de...

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The third wave. Covid: Fernán Quirós confirms 35 positives from Delta in the City and warns that "the variant will trigger the cases". The City of BA Minister of Health clarified that until now the community circulation of the strain in CABA has not been documented....

...."The Delta is going to trigger the cases, what we are discussing is delaying it because there is no country in the world that has been able to prevent it. What we are doing is delaying it as long as possible with vaccination. It is twice as contagious as the original variable" said Quirós....The minister clarified: "We are finishing the second wave we had in April and May, which was very hard and painful; what remains ahead is a couple of cold months and a Delta variant that will circulate in an irreversible and progressive way." And he added: "Surely it will be a reason for an increase in cases; we have a third wave of cases ahead, but if the majority of people have both doses, it will only be a curve that will not have so much hospitalization in intensive care and death."....

....Third wave. Regarding this decrease in cases -but with the prospect of the Delta ahead- Quirós said: "We are at a plateau of cases and deaths. We have to stretch this plateau in the next two or three weeks." In contrast to this worrying context, the minister announced that the first results of the combination of vaccines are "auspicious", in view of the delay in the second dose of Sputnik V. "By mid-week, Tuesday or Wednesday, we will be finishing the analysis of the first two groups of combined vaccines, AstraZeneca and Sinopharm as the second dose. The data is quite auspicious. I hope that by the end of next week we have a sure plan," he predicted.

As for information, the City official explained that this Tuesday the Moderna vaccine will be applied to 10,000 adolescents with risk factors, while this week a flight from Russia with component 2 will arrive. There are 180 thousand porteños waiting for the second dose of the Russian vaccine....The arrival of this strain of coronavirus, more contagious and virulent, caused a resurge in countries such as the UK or Israel and back off in terms of policies to ease restrictions.

 

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1 August 2021

Cuándo llegan las 20 millones de vacunas de Pfizer que compró el Gobierno

Luego de los anuncios de la semana pasada por parte de la ministra de Salud, Carla Vizzotti, se estiman los tiempos de llegada del fármaco. Se conocen más detalles sobre la compra de las dosis de Cansino. Detalle del stock de vacunas con las que se cuenta actualmente

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When do the 20 million Pfizer vaccines bought by the government arrive?
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, announced last week that she signed a "binding agreement" with the Pfizer laboratory for the provision of 20M doses of the vaccine, which will arrive in the country this year once the agreement is signed as it will be linked to logistics issues that will define delivery and reception times....
....In a press conference, the minister also announced that the payment of the first 200,000 doses of the Cansino vaccine was signed as part of the contract of 5.4 million for 2021....Between logistics and delivery times, the minister estimated the arrival of the vaccines between the next few weeks and the month of December of this year....

 

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3 August 2021 by María Belén Etchenique....updated at 6:04pm

Variante Delta: cómo descubrieron los dos casos de Monserrat sin nexo y por qué puede haber otros sin detectar

Se trata de dos personas que no viajaron al exterior ni tuvieron contacto con alguien que lo hubiera hecho. Afirman que "no hay circulación comunitaria". Alarma en Barracas por un incendio en un depósito que amenazó con tomar las casas linderas

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Delta variant: how they discovered the two cases in the CABA neighborhood of Monserrat without nexus and why there may be others undetected. These are two people who did not travel abroad or have contact with someone who would have done so. They claim that "there is no community circulation."
There are 89 people infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Seventy correspond to men and women who returned from abroad and 17 to individuals who had contact with those who had traveled. But two, of the 89 cases registered in the country, did not leave Argentina or were linked to someone who had done so. The link is currently unknown: it is not yet known how and when they acquired this variant, the most contagious that has been detected until today in the world....

....The warning came from the virology laboratory of the Ricardo Gutiérrez Hospital de Niños. The two people, a minor and an adult - gender did not transcend - 32 years old, had gone to the Recoleta medical center, where they were swabbed and received the diagnosis....In the virology laboratory, Covid samples from the hospital and from other parts of the City, the Province and the rest of the country are sequenced to know the genetic evolution of the coronavirus and monitor which variants circulate. Not all Covid cases are analyzed, but a proportion. "Nowhere in the world is it possible to sequence all the cases that are detected. What is done is to define statistically representative random samples. Molecular epidemiology has historically worked like this", explains Mariana Viegas, biochemist, virologist at Hospital Gutiérrez and leader of the Projecto PAIS. Since December, in the hospital laboratory, between 5% and 10% of the Covid diagnoses of the previous week have been sequenced. "This time," Viegas adds, "it was 10% and in that context the Delta variant was found."....

...."You do not have to stop at what happens in a week, but observe the progression. For now, two cases of the Delta variant have been detected without epidemiological nexus, but that does not mean that there is community circulation. This will happen when the detection is systematic and sustained over the weeks. "

 

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4 August 2021 at 6:21pm by Jose Maria Costa

Covid: las conclusiones a las que llegó el Gobierno para combinar las vacunas y por qué quedó afuera Sinopharm

En un acto en Casa Rosada, autoridades nacionales, porteñas y bonaerenses dieron a conocer los primeros resultados de los ensayos clínicos que comenzaron el mes pasado

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Covid: the conclusions reached by the Government to combine vaccines and why Sinopharm was left out....

....While more than 2.2 million Argentines have been waiting for more than 90 days for the second dose of the Sputnik V vaccine, the national, province of BA and City of BA authorities released the preliminary results of the vaccine combination clinical trials, which began a month ago.

 

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4 August 2021 at 5:23pm by Mauricio Giambartolomei

¿Combinar o esperar la Sputnik V? Qué dicen los infectólogos sobre la nueva estrategia de vacunación

El estudio presentado ayer por el Gobierno avala la combinación de sueros provenientes de diferentes laboratorios y abre un panorama más amplio para afrontar los próximos pasos de la campaña

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Combine or wait for Sputnik V? What infectologists say about the new vaccination strategy.
While it is expected that the local production of the Sputnik V vaccine reaches significant volumes so that the components, especially the second dose, are distributed throughout the country, Argentina already has an alternative to make up for the absence of this key element for complete the diagrams. The conclusions presented this afternoon support the combination of vaccines from different laboratories and open a broader panorama to face the next steps of the campaign.

As anticipated yesterday, the interchangeability of the Russian vaccine with that of AstraZeneca offers the highest efficiency and guarantees the generation of antibodies to achieve immunization against the coronavirus, as with that of Moderna. Testing will continue with other labs, such as Sinopharm and Cansino, when it enters the country. Despite the scientific endorsement that ensures the viability of the exchange, the option to choose to wait for the second component of Sputnik V or to ensure receiving the second dose which is available now. Is opening this possibility a successful strategy?....

 

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Los gobiernos de Horacio Rodríguez Larreta y Axel Kicillof empezarán a enviar hoy los turnos para completar con dosis de Moderna el esquema de vacunación de Sputnik

En CABA, hay 180 mil personas con el plazo vencido para recibir la segunda dosis del inoculante creado por el instituto Gamaleya. Como también dispuso la provincia de Buenos Aires, desde mañana podrán optar completar el esquema con inoculantes de AstraZeneca y Moderna, aunque las dosis de este...

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Between today and tomorrow those living in CABA who received the first dose of Sputnik and have been left waiting will begin to receive turnos to receive Moderna as their second dose.

This follows the announcement of the national government that Sputnik will be combined with AZ or Moderna due to the shortages of Sputnik.