{"id":116502,"date":"2021-03-07T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116502"},"modified":"2021-03-07T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T04:08:00","slug":"covid-19-venezuelas-pres-maduro-receives-first-dose-of-sputnik-v-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116502","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Venezuela&#8217;s Pres Maduro receives first dose of Sputnik V vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/fc81b4a\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2F1d%2Fc4c4ed32af3c945f5e9f6788ed9f58%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH250ER%3A22021-03-06T185810Z_2_LYNXMPEH250ER_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-VENEZUELA.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro receives a dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Caracas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores have received their first dose of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Venezuelan state television reported, while the country received a second shipment of the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images of both Maduro and Flores receiving their doses were broadcast on state television. Maduro said he felt &#8220;fine&#8221; after receiving the injection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Across the world the studies say that the Russian vaccine is a great vaccine to generate immunity,&#8221; Maduro said. &#8220;We will guarantee all vaccines for the people of Venezuela.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on Saturday, Venezuela&#8217;s Health Ministry said the second batch of 100,000 Sputnik V doses had arrived from Moscow via a flight operated by state airline Conviasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela had received the first 100,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine on Feb&nbsp;13. Maduro said authorities had administered around 60 per cent of those doses, prioritizing medical personnel as well as officials and lawmakers in the first phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South American country, home to some 25 million people, has invested US$200 million to buy 10 million doses of the Russian vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crisis-stricken OPEC nation also received 500,000 doses of China&#8217;s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine earlier this week. Maduro said the government would begin to inoculate Venezuelans with the Sinopharm vaccine beginning on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela has reported 141,356 cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,371 deaths, well below levels of its South American peers. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro receives a dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Caracas CARACAS, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores have received their first dose of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Venezuelan state television reported, while the country received a second shipment of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}