covid-19 vaccination in algeria covid-19 vaccination in algeria on 29 january 2021, algeria launched a covid-19 vaccination campaign, a day after receiving its first shipment of 50,000 doses of the russia's sputnik v vaccine. as of 6 june 2021, around 2.5 million doses have been administered. algeria is currently vaccinating its population with both sputnik v and oxford-astrazeneca vaccines.