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The Argentine pharmaceutical company Richmond informed that it had produced more than 5 million doses of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V.

“We have produced in Argentina more than 5 million doses, given the batch manufactured yesterday. At the moment, we have produced 1,179,625 doses of the first component and 3,890,000 doses of the second component,” the company tweeted on August 27, 2021.

Argentina became the first Latin American country both to give a nod to the emergency use of the Sputnik V vaccine and to localise its production.

Earlier in the month of April, it announced its plans to produce 4-5 million doses of Sputnik V monthly and expects to ramp up production to 500 million doses annually.

The Sputnik V which is 83% effective against Delta Variant has been approved in 70 nations with a total population of some 4 billion people.