The writer is a journalist and managing editor of Armando.info, an investigative journalism site.
Older adults are amongst the first Peruvians to receive COVID-19 vaccines at a vaccination site in Lima, Peru. “The World Health Organisation’s Global Vaccine Access Fund, or Covax, amounts to a clearinghouse for the West’s leftovers,” says the writer. Credit: UNICEF/Jose Vilca
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Amid the West’s scramble for vaccines, a trickle of news flies under the radar. Argentina becomes the first country in South America to produce Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. The first shipment of Sputnik V is promised to Peru by May.
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Simeon Tegel, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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LIMA, Peru - When interim president Francisco Sagasti finally unveiled Peru s first coronavirus vaccine deal last month, Peruvians wearied by nearly a year of twin health and economic crises compounded by the country s recent political turmoil glimpsed a light at the end of the tunnel.
As ICU doctors and nurses this month began receiving their shots from the first batch - 300,000 doses from the Chinese company Sinopharm - cautious optimism began to spread. Sagasti said he hoped to have a third of Peru s 32 million people vaccinated by the time he steps down on July 28.