COVID-19 vaccination in Argentina

Argentina struck a deal with the United Kingdom in November 2020 for a British made vaccine produced by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.

[3] 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.

[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.

Argentinian president Alberto Fernández receiving the Sputnik V vaccine on 21 January 2021.