And the Argentine news agency “Telam” reported that the vaccination campaign was launched simultaneously throughout the country.
Thus, Argentina has become the third country in the world to begin vaccinating its citizens against the Corona virus, using the “Sputnik-5” vaccine, called “Russian satellite.”
The first batch will go to health workers. Along with a nurse, the governor and deputy health minister of the Province of Buenos Aires were among the first to receive the vaccine.
“Today is the beginning of the end of the epidemic in Argentina,” the governor wrote on Twitter.
The start of the national vaccination campaign faces many expectations, as well as a degree of mistrust, as Russia was the first country in the world to agree to the widespread use of the “Sputnik-5” vaccine, even before the start of an important and final testing phase.
And the agency “Bloomberg” news, that the Argentine Health Regulatory Authority gave urgent emergency approval to use the vaccine last week, after the previous approvals it obtained from Russia and Belarus.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on state television, according to the Telem agency: “I think that people have great confidence in the vaccine … they do not pay attention to the attempts to intimidate them.”
Through this initiative, Argentina will join North America, the United Kingdom, the European Union, China and Chile in starting the vaccination, which is expected to end the epidemic, its deaths and its catastrophic economic effects.
Argentina has recorded more than 1.5 million cases of coronavirus, as well as 43,000 associated deaths.
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