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So far, only health professionals have been vaccinated in Argentina. The vaccination of people over 70 years of age began on Wednesday of this week in the province of Buenos Aires.
But on Friday, 71-year-old journalist Horacio Verbitsky announced on the radio that, as a result of his long friendship with Health Minister Ginés González García, he had already received the vaccine in the Prime Minister’s office.
Local media also reported that other people with close connections to the government also received the vaccine at the Ministry of Health.
According to local media, at least ten people have received the coronary vaccine without having followed the country’s procedures. It is not known if all of these can be linked to the Minister of Health.
On Saturday night, Reuters reports that Health Minister Ginés González García decided to resign. It happened shortly after the country’s president, Alberto Fernández, pressured the minister and asked him to step aside.
On his own Twitter account, the former Minister of Health writes in a letter that people received the coronary vaccine out of the specific order in his office, but that this was an inadvertent mistake made while he was not present.
Condemned
After the news that the Minister of Health has given his friends doses of vaccines in secret, the reactions have not taken long to arrive in Argentina
The journalist Verbitsky is also the leader of a human rights organization. After knowing the news, the organization has condemned what it has done.
– We have received the news that our manager has taken the vaccine outside the established vaccination program, and that he has acquired it with the help of friendly services. We strongly oppose people in our organization using the services in this way, they write on Twitter.
VIP shots
Verbitsky’s employer, editor Roberto Navarro, has also subsequently been critical.
– When 50,000 have lost their lives, it is immoral that VIP vaccines have been issued. This applies to those who organized the vaccination and those who received the VIP vaccines.
The country’s president and vice president also received the vaccine. They are both in their 60s and play the plug of the syringe on live TV. This was done so that people would not be skeptical of vaccination, it was explained.
Argentina has 44 million inhabitants. The country has registered around two million cases of infection and more than 50,000 coronary deaths.
