Argentina has received 904,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in its first delivery from the Chinese drug maker, the government said on Thursday, which should help the country accelerate its fledgling inoculation program.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 1 (Reuters) - Argentina received a shipment with 732,500 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus on Monday, the government said, giving the country a total 2.47 million doses of the drug developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Institute.
The shipment arrived on a plane from Moscow that landed at Ezeiza International Airport in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Argentina has also received 1 million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine and 580,000 doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine from the Indian Serum Institute.
The South American grains exporting country has registered 2.1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases with 52,077 deaths. The total population of Argentina is about 45 million.
Argentina’s health minister Carla Vizzotti said on Friday she had tested positive for COVID-19 and would quarantine for several days. Vizzotti, a week on the job, replaced former minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia who resigned following reports that VIPs in Argentina had jumped the line to receive vaccination shots early.
Argentina's newly appointed health minister Carla Vizzotti said on Friday she had tested positive for COVID-19, one week after her predecesor resigned following reports that VIPs in the South American nation had jumped the line to receive vaccination shots early.