Safety of the Sputnik V Vaccine in Health Personnel of Private Effectors of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends vaccination against coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) as a fundamental primary prevention tool to limit the health and economic effects of the pandemic. having effective and safe vaccines in the short term,will help to reduce the incidence of illness, hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 and help to gradually restore a new normality in the functioning of our country.

On December 23, within the framework of Law 27573, the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology submitted the report on the Sputnik V vaccine to the Ministry of Health of the Nation to advance in the Emergency Authorization.

The National Government ensures the processes to reach the standards of safety and efficacy for the entire Argentine territory, being vaccination in stages, free, voluntary and independent of the history of having suffered the disease.

For the surveillance of vaccine safety, the Strategic Plan proposes to health effectors "To develop a specific plan for intensified passive and active surveillance of vaccine safety, which allows the continuous analysis of the notifications of Events Supposedly Attributed to Vaccines and Immunizations.

The Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires City articulated the public and private effectors for the epidemiological follow-up of the personnel vaccinated with the first vaccines in relation to the frequency of Events Supposedly Attributed to Vaccines and Immunizations.