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Images of Sputnik V vaccination in Latin America

2021-02-23T19:28:22.336Z


The Russian vaccine crosses geopolitical and ideological lines and makes its way as one of the most demanded alternatives to face the pandemic in the region


  • 1A woman receives a first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine, in Buenos Aires on February 19, 2021, while Argentina continues with the national inoculation campaign.

    Agustin Marcarian REUTERS

  • 2A nurse holds the Sputnik vaccine at the National Hospital in Itaugua, Paraguay, on February 22.

    Jorge Saenz AP

  • 3Mexico has received the first 200,000 doses of the Russian vaccine against covid-19 on Monday of this week.

    The Government's priority is to advance with the vaccination of older adults in Mexico City, the most vulnerable population in the area most affected by the pandemic, which has already left more than two million confirmed cases and more than 180,000 deaths in the country.

    Carlos Jasso REUTERS

  • 4 Workers of the Departmental Health Service in Bolivia vaccinate health personnel against covid-19, on February 4, a week after the arrival of the first 22,000 doses of Sputnik V. Martín Alipaz EFE

  • 5A Venezuelan health worker accompanies a colleague before receiving the Russian Sputnik V vaccine at a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, this Monday.

    Leonardo Fernandez Viloria REUTERS

  • 6Airport workers unload 4,000 Russian Sputnik V vaccines that arrived in Paraguay on February 18.

    Nathalia Aguilar EFE

  • 7According to a trial published on February 2 in the prestigious scientific journal 'The Lancet', the Russian vaccine reaches 91.6% effectiveness.

    In the photograph, a Venezuelan health worker shows a vaccination card for children and adults.

    Leonardo Fernandez Viloria REUTERS

  • 8 Paraguayan soldiers stand guard as health workers inoculate their colleagues with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine at a hospital in Itaugua, Paraguay, on February 22.

    Cesar Olmedo REUTERS

  • 9Airport workers unload containers with doses of Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19 at the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, on February 12 of this year.

    JUAN MABROMATA AFP

  • 10A doctor waits to receive an injection of the Sputnik V vaccine at the Pérez de León II public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday, February 19.

    In addition to Venezuela, Mexico or Argentina, Russia has placed the vaccine in a dozen other countries, including Belarus, Serbia, Israel or the United Arab Emirates.

    Matias Delacroix AP

  • 11 Nurse Mirian Arrua speaks with the press before receiving the first injection of the Sputnik V vaccine at the National Hospital of Itaugua, Paraguay, on Monday, February 22.

    Jorge Saenz AP

  • 12A health worker prepares a dose of Sputnik V during the vaccination of health and education workers in a school in Argentina, on February 18.

    JUAN MABROMATA AFP

  • 13Elderly people wait to leave after receiving the first dose of Sputnik V, at a temporary vaccination center in a public school in Ezeiza, Argentina.

    JUAN MABROMATA AFP

  • 14The first batch of Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, upon arrival at Benito Juárez International Airport, in Mexico City, on Monday.

    Carlos Jasso REUTERS

  • 15A health worker holds a package containing five doses of Sputnik V vaccine in Buenos Aires on February 18.

    On December 23, Argentina became the second country in the world to pass Sputnik V, after Belarus.

    JUAN MABROMATA AFP

Source: elparis

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