Vaccines: Each dose of Sputnik V cost $ 9.9 and the Government spent $ 25 million in “additional costs”

How much did the Sputnik V vaccines cost the Argentine government? Law 27,573 empowers the government to “include confidentiality clauses or agreements” when it comes to purchasing serum to fight the pandemic.

On December 10, 2020, President Alberto Fernández announced the signing of the agreement with the Russian Federation for the supply of Sputnik V against the coronavirus. The data was not public, but TN.com.ar and the Truth / Consequence program requested access to public information.

From the response from the Nation’s Health Ministry, it appears that Argentina paid for each dose of the Russian vaccine US $ 9.9 and the total value of the 20 million sera is US $ 199 million.

The official response also mentions “additional costs” of $ 24.9 million, a figure hitherto unknown and of which, in the response, no details are provided.

“At least five sources from Health and Casa Rosada have unofficially stated that they are due to logistics expenses that are paid outside of the contract with the Russian Federation. This is a ‘black hole’ which there are no details, ”says TN.

This figure brings the total cost of purchasing and logistics of Russian vaccines to $ 223.9 million.

“These are logistical issues, which we cannot reveal to a large extent due to the confidentiality agreement. That they informed that the contract is Incoterms seems to me already an excess, recognizes a source of this portfolio.