Argentine leftist group protests AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine maker amid delays

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An Argentine far-left workers group protested on Monday outside local vaccine market mAbxience, which is producing the Oxford ...

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Leftist groups protest outside the mAbxience laboratory to demand its expropriation, amidst the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Garin, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina March 29, 2021. The placard reads:"Vaccines for all".

The country had bet on the AstraZeneca Plc vaccine, which is being produced by mAbxience and Mexican laboratory Liomont. The latter has faced production delays, and there have been reports of some doses being stockpiled or sent out of Argentina. "We have presented a bill to declare it a public utility and to have massive national production with all public and private laboratories to make millions of doses for the most vulnerable in Argentina and Latin America," he said.Spain's Insud Pharma group, which owns mAbxience, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Argentina's center-left ruling Peronist alliance includes influential, hard-left groups, who have been gaining a louder voice in recent months in relation to debt talks with the International Monetary Fund and diplomacy over Venezuela.The leaders of the protests, citing unconfirmed reports, said vaccine doses were being hoarded within Argentina and that others had even been sent to the United States.

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