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At least 99 students test positive for COVID-19 after returning to Argentina from Cancún, where health workers faked negative test results for passengers before boarding flights
Two airplanes arrived in Argentina with 99 students who were infected with the coronavirus following a high school graduation trip to Cancún, Mexico
At least 55 of the 88 students who arrived on a flight at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires on Sunday tested positive
There were also 44 students on a flight with 149 passengers who tested positive after they stepped off a plane at Ezeiza International Airport on Saturday
At least 49 students who were booked for the same flight were not permitted to board in Mexico after they received positive test results
Sputnik V is the first and the only vaccine delivered to Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, February 3. /TASS/. More than 100,000 Argentinean citizens have already been inoculated with two components of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, the country’s Health Ministry said.
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According to the ministry, a total of 283 people received the first component as of February 1. Two doses have already been administered to 106,280 people.
Sputnik V is the first and, so far, the only vaccine delivered to Argentina. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the government of Argentina signed a contract to deliver 10 mln doses of the two-component preparation last year. The first batch of 300,000 doses of the first component was delivered to the Latin American republic on December 24. On December 29, Argentina launched inoculation of healthcare workers with Sputnik V.
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Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has been inoculated with the first component of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, the presidential press service reported. President Alberto Fernandez received the first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine, TASS cited the statement as saying. The head of state confirmed safety and effectiveness of the vaccine and reiterated that it is his priority to make sure that the majority of Argentines receive vaccines as early as possible, the press service said. According to its data, the president received a shot of the Sputnik V preparation at the Alejandro Posadas National hospital in a suburb of Buenos Aires.