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Argentina to combine Sputnik V with Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines

04-08-2021 21:10 Individuals who received a first dose of Sputnik V will be able to apply for another shot to complete their vaccination plan or wait, Health Minister Carla Vizzoti announces.

Coronavirus pandemic

Government hopes to ramp up vaccination amid opposition criticism

11-06-2021 23:45 Argentina’s death toll from Covid-19 continues to rise and healthcare professionals are feeling the strain.

Coronavirus vaccines

More than three million vaccines arrive, Pfizer controversy rages on

04-06-2021 23:41 Pfizer controversy takes over political debate as Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero appears before Congress.

Covid-19 vaccine

More than 2.1 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrive at Ezeiza

31-05-2021 17:09 Argentina took delivery of more than 2.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine against Covid-19 on Monday morning, handing a timely boost to the government's mass vaccination campaign.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Covax delivery: 657,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrive in Argentina

26-05-2021 13:52 Argentina received an additional 657,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Amsterdam via the World Health Organisation's Covax scheme on Wednesday, a timely arrival as deaths from Covid-19 surpassed 75,000 deaths.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Mexico to start exporting AstraZeneca vaccines to Latin America

25-05-2021 17:20 Mexico will shortly begin exporting AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccines to other Latin American nations, with a shipment of 800,000 doses set to arrive in Argentina this weekend.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina takes delivery of 1.65 million Covid-19 vaccines

24-05-2021 22:18 Government says more than 1.65 million vaccine doses have arrived over the past two days, including just over one million AstraZeneca shots.

Coronavirus vaccine

Officials head to Mexico, Cuba for Covid-19 vaccine talks

24-05-2021 15:43 Two key officials in Alberto Fernández’s government are travelling to Mexico and Cuba for talks over arrival of new vaccines against Covid-19.

Covid-19 Vaccines

Argentina to receive four million AstraZeneca vaccine doses in May

13-05-2021 08:38 Health Minister Carla Vizzotti confirmed Tuesday that government is set to take delivery of close to four million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine throughout May.

Global Pandemic

Brazilian states suspend AstraZeneca vaccine for pregnant women

11-05-2021 12:34 Various Brazilian states including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have suspended the immunisation of pregnant women with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, following the advice of the national health regulator after a death was reported.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Argentina offers to manufacture delayed AstraZeneca vaccines

07-05-2021 01:50 With delays on Mexican end of mass co-production, Argentina seeks to unblock production of AstraZeneca-Oxford shots, offering to manufacture the entire vaccine domestically.

COVID-19 VACCINES

US announces export of up to 60 million AstraZeneca Covid vaccines

26-04-2021 15:37 US will release up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, amid mounting criticism that the Biden administration was hoarding shots while other countries suffered.

AS I SEE IT

Back to square one

10-04-2021 08:11 For poorer countries, among them Argentina, salvation is still a long way off.

by James Neilson

Vaccine delivery

Argentina takes delivery of 218,000 vaccine doses via Covax scheme

28-03-2021 22:40 Argentina took delivery of 218,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 on Sunday, the country's first shipment from the World Health Organisation's Covax scheme.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Major EU nations halt AstraZeneca as WHO says it is safe

15-03-2021 22:00 EU's largest countries joined stream of states halting rollouts of AstraZeneca jabs over blood clot fears, as the World Health Organisation and Europe's medicines watchdog insisted it was safe to use.

Alberto in Mexico

Fernández, López Obrador demand fairer access to Covid-19 vaccines

23-02-2021 16:49 Alberto Fernández and Andrés Manuel López Obrador call for fairer distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Latin America and across the world, with both in agreement that rich nations are monopolising jabs.