Sputnik V shots developed by Russia, the government said.It is the first country in the Americas to use this vaccine against the pandemic.The vaccination drive began simultaneously around the country with frontline healthcare workers given priority, Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia said.Also Read | How Indians lived online during 2020He spoke at Posadas Hospital in Buenos Aires, where a doctor named Flavia Loiacono became the first in the country to get a Covid shot."The idea is to start vaccinating those with the greatest risk exposure," said Gonzalez Garcia.The Gam-CovidVac vaccine, nicknamed Sputnik V after the Soviet-era satellite, has come under fire from critics in Russia and abroad because it was registered before the start of.