Chile Considers Russia's COVID-19 Vaccine

Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera indicated the government plans to buy the Sputnik V vaccine to ensure the possibility of immunization of the population with the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, reported TASS on July 8, 2021.

Pinera did not provide any details on the talks with the Gamaleya Research Institute.

Chile currently uses the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty), China’s Sinovac Biotech, and the British-Swedish AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria) vaccines to immunize the population.

As of July 8, 2021, the Chilian Ministry of Health had confirmed 1,579,591 cases of COVID-19, with a reducing number of new cases being reported.

The U.S. Embassy in Chile confirmed the country is under a daily nationwide curfew from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am, and Chile will remain under the State of Emergency through September 2021.