700,000 doses of Sputnik V’s second component delivered to Guatemala

The batch will "allow to fully complete the vaccination of citizens who had already received the first shot," the country’s government said

A batch of 700,000 doses of the second component of Russia’s Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine was delivered on Sunday to the capital of Guatemala, the Prensa Libre newspaper said on its website, Qazet.az reports citing TASS.

The batch will "allow to fully complete the vaccination of citizens who had already received the first shot," the country’s government said.

Guatemala, with a total population of about 18 million, has vaccinated 4,098,782 of its citizens with the first dose of various vaccines. A total of 2,019,287 citizens have completed the immunization process.