Coronavirus in Argentina: another 425 deaths confirmed, the highest number since the beginning of November

01/18/2021 7:21 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 01/18/2021 7:28 PM

While the different provinces begin to receive the

second doses of the Sputnik V vaccines

, the Ministry of Health confirmed this Monday another 425 deaths from coronavirus and 8,185 new cases in the last 24 hours.

With these registries, there are 1,807,428 positives in the country, of which 1,594,768 are recovered patients and 166,828 are active confirmed cases.

This Monday, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal published a critical note on the vaccination campaign in Argentina, in which it stated that this country

is "a testing ground" for the Sputnik V vaccine.

According to the note, Argentina began to vaccinate without documentation confirming that the vaccine can be applied to those over 60 years of age.

"Among the first Latin American countries to be inoculated, 200,000 people in Argentina received Sputnik, most of them health personnel and other essential workers. Many of them are happy to receive the injection and say that Argentines will be less skeptical as they more doses are administered, "he describes.

However, in the last hours it was known that the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat) received from Russia the technical reports that will allow the Government to advance with immunization in the age group at greatest risk from the coronavirus.

This weekend

the second doses of the 300,000 that are being applied

to health personnel arrived.

The contract signed with the government of Vladimir Putin establishes the sale of doses to vaccinate a total of 10 million people before February, with the option of 5 million more by March.

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