# Venezuela begins COVID-19 vaccine imports with Sputnik V, later adding COVAX batches Date: 2021 ## The fact On 13 February 2021 the first Sputnik V batches arrived as Venezuela’s initial COVID-19 vaccine imports. PAHO later recorded a first COVAX batch on 29 April 2021. He did not sit as PAHO. ## Context COVID sat as parent. Neighbouring 2021 regionals are a later civic file. Health ministry and PAHO share delivery. 2021 regionals are a neighbour civic opening. Dollarization 2022 is a later economic child. The President of Venezuela heads the national executive, commands FANB as commander-in-chief, appoints the cabinet, and can request enabling laws. He does not write an OFAC designation, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber decision, or a Colombian migration statute. A CNE announcement is not an opposition acta and is not a Carter Center finding. Those three statuses stay on separate rows. An ICC investigation is not a conviction. An IMF figure is labelled as an estimate where BCV stopped publishing. Sanctions after 2017 and 2019 are an external causal factor; they do not erase the pre-2017 PDVSA-and-policy collapse. ## Evidence and sources Pan American Health Organization carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [vaccine accessibility](/drivers/vaccine-accessibility): a completed import opening during a live epidemic, remaining coverage gaps named. ## What is established and what is not Established: February 2021 Sputnik V arrival and April 2021 COVAX batch, independently reported. Not established: that every adult was thereby vaccinated that month, or a unique later excess-death coefficient of zero. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Russia, China, and COVAX supplied. PAHO and the health ministry share delivery.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Venezuela begins COVID-19 vaccine imports with Sputnik V, later adding COVAX batches, not a later speech about Venezuela begins COVID-19 vaccine imports with Sputnik V, later adding COVAX batches. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Venezuela begins COVID-19 vaccine imports with Sputnik V, later adding COVAX batches on 2021-02-13 is not a licence to treat every later Pan American Health Organization communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Venezuela begins COVID-19 vaccine imports with Sputnik V, later adding COVAX batches into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He owned the import decisions. Russia, China, and COVAX supplied. PAHO and the health ministry share delivery. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Nicolás Maduro: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolas-maduro ## Drivers - Vaccine Accessibility: https://factrail.ai/drivers/vaccine-accessibility - Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-venezuela-idUSKBN2AD0N1 - https://www.paho.org/en/news/29-april-2021-venezuela-receives-first-batch-covid-19-vaccines-through-covax-facility-support ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-vaccines-2021