Argentina is within a hair's breadth of confirming 80,000 deaths among its 45 million citizens from Covid-19, with a total of nearly 3.9m cases, Reuters reports.

Argentina's health minister Carla Vizzotti insisted that although the number of deaths remained alarming, the decline in the number of over 60s, who received vaccines first, among them was a sign the country was moving in the right direction.

Infectious diseases specialist Dr Roberto Debbag said there was still some way to go. "We will have high or medium-high numbers until more than 30 or 40 per cent of the population has been vaccinated with two doses," he said. "I don't think that will happen in the space of the next three months."

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