Argentina begins administering second Sputnik V doses
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Buenos Aires (AFP)
Argentina's government began administering second doses of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine Tuesday after receiving another shipment of 300,000 shots at the weekend.
Argentina began its immunization campaign on December 29 with the first 300,000 doses of the vaccine made by Russia's Gamaleya laboratory.
It is prioritizing health care workers in this first phase.
"The immunization campaign has been developing in a timely fashion," Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia said.
The country of 44 million has recorded more than 1.8 million cases and almost 46,000 deaths from Covid-19.
Argentina was the first Latin American country, on December 23, to approve the "emergency use" of Sputnik V despite a lack of clinical trials.