Venezuela Politicizes Access to Vaccines Via State Loyalty Card Nicolle Yapur and Alex Vasquez, Bloomberg News People wait to receive a dose of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday, April 9, 2021. Last week Venezuela received 50,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, as part of a bilateral agreement between Caracas and Moscow. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela is restricting Covid-19 shots to people with a state loyalty card, effectively excluding many government opponents from getting vaccinated. When the country began inoculating its elderly population last week, it said it was selecting recipients from a registry used by the Nicolas Maduro administration to keep tabs on voter loyalty and grant state subsidies.