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February 20, 2021 "I believe we have the scientific capacity to develop what we call the universal vaccine against the coronavirus," said Dr. 

Anthony Fauci

. "We need coverage against all mutations - said Fauci - but also the entire spectrum of the coronavirus family." Fauci said it is likely that these coronaviruses have already affected human civilization hundreds of years ago. "We have already been hit three times by pandemic attacks or potential pandemics in the past 18 years, so let's be ashamed if we don't develop the universal coronavirus vaccine," Fauci said.



Over 59 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the U.S., according to data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 59 million doses have been administered, approximately 76% of the 78,152,495 doses. distributed. 1.8 million doses have been used today.



The Russian Ministry of Health

has registered a third vaccine against Covid-19: the

CoviVac

, made by

the

Chumakov

Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immunobiology Drugs in St. Petersburg. This was announced by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to which "in mid-March the first 120,000 doses will be distributed among the civilian population". The other two vaccines registered in Russia against Covid-19 are the Sputnik V of the Gamaleya Center and the EpiVacCorona of the Vektor Center. 



By the end of the first half of this year,

Russia

plans to produce 88 million "sets of doses" of vaccines against Covid, including 83 million of Sputnik V. This was announced by Russian Deputy Prime Minister

Tatiana Golikova

. "To date, we plan to produce 88 million sets of doses within the middle of the year, currently not counting the CoviVac vaccine," said Golikova, picked up by the Russian state news agency Tass.



Mexico will receive today the first 200,000 doses of the

CoronaVac

vaccine

, for the prevention of Covid-19, from the Chinese company SinoVac. The arrival of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, scheduled for the weekend, has been postponed until next Monday.

Argentina's



president

Alberto Fernandez has asked the health minister to resign following a vaccination scandal. A well-known local journalist has in fact declared that he had received the vaccine against Covid-19 as a preferential way after having requested it to the minister. The president "instructed his chief of staff to demand the resignation of the health minister" Gines Gonzalez Garcia, who is in charge of the government's Covid-19 strategy, said an executive official, who was not authorized to release. the information and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.