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Argentina's new health minister pledges fair vaccine access after VIP priority scandal

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Argentina’s new Health Minister Carla Vizzotti was sworn in on Saturday after the country was rattled by a scandal over VIP coronavirus vaccine access, pledging to strengthen oversight and transparency of the inoculation programme.

Her predecessor stepped down on Friday after reports that people had been able to use connections to get priority access to Covid-19 vaccines, piling pressure on the centre-left government of President Alberto Fernandez...

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