China's Ambassador in Montevideo Wang Gang Wednesday underlined his country's open attitude towards a trade agreement either bilateral or en bloc with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) when Uruguay or the bloc as a whole are ready.
Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.