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India has not started its immunization program against Covid-19 and therefore considers it too early to commit to exporting doses of the immunizer, even to Brazil, says the Hindustan Times, the country’s newspaper. Meanwhile, Brazil has a plane ready to take off with a mission to obtain 2 million doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine produced in the country.
Newspaper sources say the decision to export doses of the immunizer to other countries should take longer.
The information is corroborated by the speech, during this week, of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, Anurag Srivastava. When asked about vaccine exports, he said the country’s immunization program would be launched on Saturday, and therefore it was too early to discuss delivery to other nations.
“You must remember that the prime minister has already declared that India’s production and delivery capacity will be used for the benefit of all mankind to combat this crisis,” said Srivastava. “The vaccination process in India is just beginning. It is too early to give a concrete answer on the destination for other countries while we are still analyzing the production and delivery schedules. We will make decisions about it in due time, it may take time.”
Meanwhile, in Brazil, the Ministry of Health chartered a Azul plane to recover the 2 million doses of the Oxford vaccine in India. The departure plan, however, was postponed on Thursday (14) and the new plan is for him to leave Brazil on Friday (15), at 11 pm.
The plane was due to leave the country at 1:00 p.m. this Thursday, bound for Recife, in Pernambuco, where it would depart directly for the Indian city of Mumbai. Now, he had left the capital of Pernambuco only on Friday.
“The Azul airline plane will begin its route to collect the two million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in India at 3:30 p.m. this Thursday (14), taking off from the Viracopos Airport, in Campinas, São Paulo, with scale. to the Guararapes airport, in Recife. The departure from the city of Pernambuco to Mumbai, India, was rescheduled in a few hours due to international logistical problems and it continues its flight plan this Friday (15), at 11pm ”, says the folder in a note.
