“I am already isolated, following the current protocol and following the guidelines of my personal doctor,” he said. “I contacted the people I met in the past 48 hours to assess whether they are close contacts.”
Argentina became the first country in Latin America to distribute the Sputnik V vaccine in late December, with the purchase of up to 25 million doses. Fernández received his first dose of the vaccine on January 21 and the second in February, said a press officer from the Casa Presidencial Rosada.
The Gamaleya Institute in Russia, which developed the Sputnik V vaccine, wished Fernández luck and emphasized the high protection of the injection against serious illnesses.
Fernández defended his own early vaccination as necessary and appropriate, he told the press during a trip to Mexico in late February, although he acknowledged that so-called “VIP vaccinations” occurred in “irregular circumstances”.
“The media in Argentina placed Alberto Fernández among the people who received the vaccine inappropriately, but I had to get the vaccine because the Argentine media said that the Russian vaccine was not to be trusted. I had to ask for the trust of the citizens, ”he said. he said.
With only 1.5% of the country’s population now fully vaccinated, the Argentine government remains on high alert. Last week, the country suspended all flights received from Brazil, Chile and Mexico due to the increase in cases of Covid-19 in those countries, according to the Argentine state news agency Telam. UK flights have also been suspended.
As of Sunday, Argentina had confirmed more than 2,383,000 cases of Covid-19 and 56,106 deaths due to the virus.
Tweeting about his diagnosis on Friday, Fernández asked the country not to let its guard down. “It is clear that the pandemic has not passed and we must continue to take care of ourselves,” he wrote.
Ana Cucalon from CNNE reported from Atlanta, Claudia Rebaza from CNN in London, Ivan Pérez Sarmienti from Buenos Aires, Jaide Garcia from Bogotá and Karol Suarez from Mexico City.