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Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced on Saturday (26) that the country will begin its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 next Tuesday (29), with the vaccine developed by the Russian laboratory Gamaleya, Sputnik V.
“The idea is that, when the fall arrives, we will have the majority of the population at risk vaccinated,” Fernández said in a videoconference with the governors. “Meanwhile, let’s take care of ourselves and make everyone understand that the risk exists and that it is I need to avoid crowds.”
The first doses of the vaccine landed in the country on Thursday (24) and will be distributed to all regions of the country in trucks next Monday; Only the states of Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego will be supplied with planes due to the distance. .
Argentina authorizes emergency use of Russian Sputnik vaccine
The Sputnik V vaccine was approved “on an emergency basis” this Wednesday by the Ministry of Health. This was the first authorization that the Russian vaccine receives in Latin America, the Russian investment fund that financed the research reported in a statement.
Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica began vaccinating against Covid-19 on Christmas Eve. Mexico was the first Latin American country to begin immunizing the population. The three countries apply the vaccine developed jointly by the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech.
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On Wednesday, the Argentine food and medicine regulator (ANMAT) authorized, on Tuesday (22), the emergency use of Sputnik V, developed by the Gamaleya Institute in Russia.
The country already had an agreement with Russia for the supply of the Sputnik V vaccine. It is expected to supply 25 million doses.
Argentina has also signed vaccine supply agreements with the University of Oxford, associated with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, and is part of the Covax mechanism -which provides vaccine for at least 20% of the population-, of the World Health Organization ( WHO).
Although President Fernández said on Saturday that the vaccination campaign will be aimed at people at risk of Covid-19 and health professionals, earlier this month he promised that he would be the first to get vaccinated – to expand public confidence in the vaccine. Russian.
“People raise many doubts about the scientific quality of Russia, but the institute that developed the vaccine is an institute that has several Nobel laureates in its team of researchers,” Fernández told a press conference on December 10.
“And to end all doubts, as soon as the vaccine is here, the first to be vaccinated will be me.” – Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina
‘I will be the first to get vaccinated,’ says president of Argentina
The agreement between the Argentine government and the Russian laboratory has a clause that guarantees the South American country the preference in the purchase of future doses of Sputnik V. Fernández explained that this can guarantee Argentina 10 million additional doses in March, if the others already bought delay their delivery.
