Buenos Aires Times | Uruguay starts vaccination campaign, last in South America

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A teacher is inoculated with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac laboratory, against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in Montevideo on March 1, 2021. | STR / AFP
Uruguay, the last country in South America to receive delivery of coronavirus vaccines, started its inoculation campaign Monday with a focus on teachers, soldiers, police and firefighters.
Some 90 vaccination centres countrywide opened their doors to give a first dose of the Chinese CoronaVac shot to some 140,000 essential workers, almost a year to the day since the country recorded its first cases of Covid-19 on March 13.
"Today we have the means to confront this scourge," Health Minister Daniel Salinas told reporters, adding that Uruguay had secured orders for all the vaccines necessary to immunise everyone 18 and older in the country of 3.4 million people.

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