HE WEEK IN CORONAVIRUS There were 4,512,439 confirmed cases of coronavirus contagion and 95,382 deaths at press time yesterday as against 4,374,763 cases and 91,979 deaths the previous Friday. Last Sunday President Alberto Fernández headed a ceremony in the Kirchner Cultural Centre to honour the then 92,000-plus victims of Covid-19 and the next day he cancelled his flight to the Generation Equality Forum in Paris in view of the new travel restrictions facing his compatriots. From the start of the week up to 45,000 people began to be stranded abroad with daily entries into Ezeiza Airport capped at 600 and dozens of flights cancelled. On Tuesday evening 709,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine (including 350,000 of the second shot) arrived at Ezeiza International Airport, thus bringing total vaccine deliveries close to 25 million, while earlier that day Laboratorios Richmond president Marcelo Figueras said that his plant would be producing 150,000 doses of the same shot as from next Monday with a total of almost a million of both vaccines in the pipeline. Also on Tuesday Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof announced that all persons travelling in July would have to spend four days isolated in a hotel at their own expense upon their return from abroad in a total quarantine of a week. He also opened up vaccination to everybody over 50, as well as all priority groups (health workers, the security forces and teachers irrespective of age and all aged over 18 with additional health risks). Kicillof complained that 30-40 percent of returnees were not complying with quarantine, thus increasing the risk of Delta variant entry, while his Cabinet Chief Carlos Bianco added that violators would be fined over four million pesos as from last Thursday. At press time, the president was signing an emergency decree removing obstacles that prevent the purchasing of vaccines produced by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.