BUENOS AIRES — Russia has dispatched 240,000 doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, for use mostly in Argentina and the rest bound for Bolivia, airline and Argentine health officials said.
Bolivia, which an airline official said will take delivery of 20,000 doses from the consignment, will be the second Latin American country after Argentina to rollout the Russian vaccine.
Argentina has already taken delivery of two consignments, each with 300,000 shots.
Aerolineas Argentinas said in a tweet just after midday local time that a total of 240,000 doses had arrived in Buenos Aires. “Unloading has begun, the doses will be stored in the Airbus warehouse, packed …
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