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Argentina’s COVID -19 Response Project - Cross Promoted

Created Dec 02 2024, 4:33 PM by Bruce Summers

 

Argentina’s COVID -19 Response Project

Argentina’s COVID -19 Response Project was among the first operations approved as part of the WBG’s global response to the COVID-19 epidemic. It provided US$535 million in financing for the purchase of ventilators and other medical equipment and supplies. The Project contributed to ensuring adequate levels of intensive care (IC) capacity throughout the pandemic, with occupation of IC Units peaking in 2021 at 77.9 percent in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, where the health system was under the most stress. It also contributed to the implementation of Argentina’s COVID-19 Immunization Campaign by financing the purchase of 33,397,056 vaccines and the expansion of the cold chain infrastructure for vaccine distribution. As of September 2021, Argentina ranked eighth in term of vaccination rates among 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries, with an estimated 50.49 percent of the population being vaccinated with vaccines purchased under the Project. Read the knowledge brief