Scandal monstru în Argentina: Ministrul Sănătăţii a demisiont după ce a şi-a vaccinat anti-COVID prietenii în minister romaniatv.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from romaniatv.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minister resigns over vaccine line-jumping
20th February, 2021 11:44:10
Argentina’s health minister resigned late Friday after it emerged that friends of his had been able to skip the line for a Covid-19 vaccination, reports AFP.
Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garci stepped down after President Alberto Fernandez called on him to quit in the wake of the scandal.
“Responding to your express request, I present my resignation from the position of minister of health,” Gonzalez Garcia, a 75-year-old doctor, wrote in a letter addressed to the president. He will be replaced by one of his deputy ministers, 48-year-old Carla Vizzotti,
who was responsible for securing the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for Argentina, the first country in America to approve and use it.
New York Deaths Dip; EU to Approve J&J Vaccine: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/20/2021
(Bloomberg)
Daily deaths in New York state fell below 100 for the first time since mid-December. The U.S. recorded another 2,611 fatalities, bringing the total to more than 495,000. Second doses in the U.S. are coming due, straining state rollouts and and leaving some without complete immunizations.
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine is expected to be given European Union approval in the next two to four weeks.
People living in care homes in England will be able to choose one person to regularly visit them from March 8, as lockdown measures ease next month. Mexican Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell, known as the nation’s coronavirus czar, has tested positive for Covid-19.