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Argentina Hopes to Start Producing Russian Sputnik V in Near Future, Presidential Adviser Says

© Sputnik / Kirill Braga / Go to the mediabankThe view shows an ampoule "component 1" of the two-component vector vaccine the Sputnik-V against coronavirus infectionin the city polyclinic No. 4 in Volgograd, Russia
The view shows an ampoule component 1 of the two-component vector vaccine the Sputnik-V against coronavirus infectionin the city polyclinic No. 4 in Volgograd, Russia - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - Argentina hopes to receive Russia's technology for the production of Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, acquiring the capacity to self-produce the vaccine in the near future, Cecilia Nicolini, an adviser to the Argentine president, told Sputnik in an interview.

Earlier in December, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said that Buenos Aires had signed a contract with Russia for the supply of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and expected to vaccinate 10 million people in the January-February period. In early November, the president told Sputnik that Argentina would receive 25 million doses of the Russian vaccine, of which 10 million doses will arrive in December and 15 million doses in early January.

© REUTERS / CARLOS BARRIAA person wearing a protective mask due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) uses protective glasses to observe the solar eclipse over South America, visible in parts of Chile and Argentina, in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, December 14, 2020
Argentina Hopes to Start Producing Russian Sputnik V in Near Future, Presidential Adviser Says - Sputnik International
A person wearing a protective mask due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) uses protective glasses to observe the solar eclipse over South America, visible in parts of Chile and Argentina, in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, December 14, 2020
"It is very possible that in the near future we will be able to produce Sputnik V as we are producing the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine. We are very open to it," Nicolini said.

According to the official, the Argentine government is seeking to obtain the technology and become the producer of the vaccine.

"So, it is an opportunity, it is being analyzed and we hope it will happen," he added.

In November, Argentine businessman Hugo Sigman, a Mabxcience laboratory stakeholder, said that the laboratory would produce between 150 and 250 million doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.

In August, Sputnik V became the first COVID-19 vaccine registered in Russia and the world. The vaccine is currently going through phase 3 trials in Russia, as well as in Belarus, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. The relevant agreements have also been reached with India, Brazil and Hungary. Sputnik V is over 95 percent effective based on preliminary data obtained 42 days after the first dose (corresponds with 21 days after the second dose). There were no unexpected adverse events during the trials.

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