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Handout photo released by the Presidency shows workers unloading containers with part of a shipment 843.600 AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccines upon their arrival at Ezeiza International airport in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on May 24, 2021. | MARIA EUGENIA CERUTTI / Argentinian Presidency / AFP AFPForum
With most of Argentina confined with a strict nine-day lockdown to tackle a brutal Covid-19 second wave, the government announced Monday that it had taken delivery of more than 1.65 million vaccine doses over the past two days.
A shipment of 843,000 vaccines from the United States represented the first batch of AstraZeneca-Oxford University shots Argentina has received from the total 22.4 million doses it initially ordered. The doses were manufactured with an active ingredient produced in Buenos Aires.
Along with the Sputnik V vaccines, produced by the Russian laboratory Gamaleya, Argentina has received shipments of the Sinopharm vaccine fromChina and Covichield doses from India s Serum Institute.
“Our intention was that the people at greatest risk that is adults over 60, individuals with existing illnesses, security staff, healthcare workers and teachers could be vaccinated by March 31. I think that date is going to be extended for a month, but if we manage to finalise the last [vaccine] agreements, we will be able to fulfil our goal before the end of April,” President Alberto Fernández said on Monday while visiting a vaccination clinic at the University of Lanús.