The day Latin America started their Covid-19 vaccination campaign
27 December 2020 |
3:08 pm
Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico begin vaccinations against Covid-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, while Argentina receives the Sputnik V vaccine and Brazil the CoronaVac vaccine against the new coronavirus.
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