COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up

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19 November 2020
...."We are slow in loading data due to all the complications that the process has," they acknowledge in the Argentine laboratory. When could the vaccine be applied in our country? Those same sources assure that the vaccine would only arrive at the end of the first quarter, far from the government's projections. In fact, it is not yet confirmed if the doses for our country will come from India, Turkey or North Korea....
....On November 6, when publicly announcing the agreement with the Russians, Alberto Fernández considered that "if everything goes well, by the end of December some 10 million people could be vaccinated" in Argentina. In the last hours, during an interview with Marco Enríquez-Ominami, he once again insisted on that date: "We want to try to vaccinate as many people as possible in January and February." However, official sources confirmed to this medium that an agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has not yet been signed. Not even an advance was paid for the 25 million committed doses....
 
 
21 November 2020
Managing the pandemic...Vaccines, logistics and infrastructure: how many millions will it cost Argentina to face the coronavirus in 2021....
....In vaccines, about $300,500,000 dollars. Just over half of that money is in the 2021 Budget approved in Congress this week. It appears under the item “Actions to Mitigate the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic (Vaccines)”, with an amount of 13,697,573,617 pesos that will be executed by the Secretary of Access to Health, led by Carla Vizzotti....
 
23 November 2020
Sputnik V: they claim that the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus will be "much cheaper" than the American ones
....The virtual event, which will be held via Zoom, will be this Tuesday at 7.30 in Argentina (1.30 pm Moscow time). According to Kirill Dmitriev, president of the Russian Fund for Direct Investments (FRID), which summoned the press and stressed that it will spread "great news."....
 
24 November 2020
According to preliminary data from the second interim analysis of the phase 3 clinical trial on 39 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among its participants, the efficacy of the Russian vaccine after 28 days is 91.4%....
 
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