News of vaccine

Brazil drops Covid test requirement for vaccinated travellers

06-04-2022 13:45 Brazil has loosened its pandemic restrictions for international travellers, ending its Covid-19 test requirement for vaccinated passengers and scrapping a lengthy health questionnaire.

Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19

04-01-2022 14:46 Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first.

New rules for travelling Argentines visiting Europe, UK

29-10-2021 23:26 The United Kingdom and the European Union changed entry rules for Argentines this week, with new details regarding vaccination.

Argentina has paid for 46% of its Covid vaccine contracts

24-09-2021 22:08 As of September 9, the government had shelled out almost US$700 million to buy Covid-19 vaccine doses – less than half of the total funds it has agreed to pay to buy 130 million shots.

Vizzotti: First shipment of 580,000 Pfizer vaccines will arrive in September

24-08-2021 16:27 Health Minister Carla Vizzotti announces that first shipment of 580,000 Pfizer-BioNTech shots will arrive in Buenos Aires in September, with another 20 million doses in total to follow by end of December via weekly deliveries.

Nicolini: Pfizer vaccines will start arriving in Argentina in September

06-08-2021 16:25 Doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine will begin arriving in Argentina from September, confirms Cecilia Nicolini.

Lacking a million Sputnik V vaccines, San Juan wants its 18 million euros back

30-07-2021 22:13 Provincial government’s contract for shots, signed with German middlemen, has fallen through, adding to the claims of the national government against the Russian lab. Now San Juan wants its money back.

by Brenda Funes

President Fernández signs decree to speed up access to vaccines

02-07-2021 23:48 Presidential decree modifies Vaccine Law, passed by Congress last November, and paves way for arrival of vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson

Laboratorios Richmond set to begin manufacturing Sputnik V second doses

30-06-2021 17:17 President of the Laboratorios Richmond pharmaceutical firm, Marcelo Figueiras, confirms that local production of the second dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine will start next Monday.

Biden details latest vaccine donations, delays June target

22-06-2021 10:46 White House announces a list of countries that would receive 55 million doses, after previously detailing the first tranche of 25 million. In total, three-quarters of the 80 million will be sent through Covax. Argentina is among the nations listed.