Argentine minister resigns if close friends use abuses to get vaccinated
On February 20, 2021 at 4:30 p.m.
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Argentina’s health minister resigns after a friend claims closeness overtakes the vaccine before others
Argentina’s health minister, Genes Gonzales Garci, resigned from office. Following an order from President Alberto Fernandez, a close person cited a personal relationship to get the Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the general public.
The scandal made headlines after 71-year-old journalist Horazio Verbitski, a friend of the health minister, said. Thanks to the intimacy between him and Gonzales. Garci who got him vaccinated before other Argentine
Local media also reported. Many people close to the government have the privilege of cutting the vaccination queue at the Ministry of Health.
Since December last year Argentine authorities use the Sputnik V vaccine for frontline medical personnel. And just started vaccinating a group of older people 70 years and older on Wednesday in Buenos Aires.
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