ARGENTINA
Crossing the Line
Thousands protested across Argentina against the government of President Alberto Fernandez over the weekend following revelations that a privileged few in the country were jumping ahead of long lines to receive the coronavirus vaccine, Merco Press reported.
Argentinians expressed outrage after it emerged that some government officials, former leaders’ families and their cronies were receiving the inoculation. Currently, only health workers and vulnerable people have a right to access the vaccine.
The scandal has already led to the resignation of Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia and forced the government to publish a list of 70 individuals that received the vaccine.
The country of 44 million has recorded more than two million confirmed cases and about 52,000 deaths from the coronavirus. Meanwhile, Argentina has received more than 1.2 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine as well as 904,000 from China’s Sinopharm.
The government said that about one million people have been inoculated, according to Agence France-Presse.
Other leaders in the region have been getting into trouble over the same issue.
In February, two ministers in Peru resigned over allegations that they shared scarce vaccine doses with relatives and allies, the Miami Herald reported.
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