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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.
Coronavirus vaccination gets under way in Argentina 3 minutes read
Buenos Aires, Dec 29 (efe-epa).- Health care workers were at the head of the line Tuesday as Argentina began Covid-19 vaccination using Sputnik V, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute, amid concerns about a second wave of infections in the South American country that has already lost nearly 43,000 lives to Covid-19.
“It is a beautiful day for Argentines, the start of a new stage in which we must continue keeping everyone together, as we are now beginning this vaccination nationwide,” Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia said from Hospital Posadas in Buenos Aires, where he and Health Access Secretary Carla Vizzotti witnessed the first inoculations a little before 9:00 am.