Background
During the first days of November, the government announced that will acquire during December 2020 and January 2021, 25 million of doses from the Russian vaccine Sputnik V after it would enter phase III.[4][5][6] Other vaccines such as the developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and China were also announced to be acquired eventually.[7]
On 22 December the flight that would bring the first doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to the country left for Moscow,[8] after negotiations began in early December.[9] 300,000 doses arrived on 24 December,[10] with the vaccination campaign beginning on 29 December.[11] The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, was among the first to receive the vaccine.[12] One day later, the AZD1222 vaccine developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca was also approved in the country.[13]
On 29 May 2021, health minister Carla Vizzotti met with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel to discuss the possibility of distribution of the still unapproved Cuban-made vaccine SOBERANA 02.[14][15]
On July 17, 2021, 3.5 million doses of Moderna vaccines arrived at Argentina as part of donation from the United States.[16] Before that, on July 9, 2021, Argentina announced that it had procured 20 million doses from Moderna on its supply deal.[17]
The European Investment Bank is collaborating with the Argentinian government to provide the country with $100 million to assist in the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccinations and to deploy vaccination campaigns.[18]
