November 23, 2020 is pictured a bottle reading “Vaccine Covid-19”
next to US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology
company BioNTech logos on November 23, 2020. JOEL SAGET /
AFP
Mexico will begin Covid-19 immunizations on Thursday, a
day after the country receives its first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech
vaccines, Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell
said.
“Tomorrow (Wednesday) the first consignment of the Pfizer
vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 arrives,” he said Tuesday on
Twitter.
“There will be a press opportunity and then the vaccine will be
safeguarded until its use on Thursday, December 24, the day
vaccinations start,” Lopez-Gatell said.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said 1.4 million doses
will arrive from Belgium of the 34.4 million that the company has
agreed to deliver.
The first vaccines will be destined for frontline medical
personnel, and administered in Mexico City and the northern state
of Coahuila due to the logistics related to the frigid temperatures
required for the shots.
Mexico also has preliminary purchase agreements with the
Chinese-Canadian project CanSinoBio for 35 million doses and with
Britain’s AstraZeneca for 77.4 million doses.
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It is also part of the international COVAX mechanism aimed at
ensuring equitable access for all countries, which allows it to buy
51.6 million additional vaccines.
Mexico has registered 119,495 deaths linked to the virus and
1.33 million infections, according to official figures.
It has the fourth most deaths after the United States, Brazil
and India, and is the 15th highest in deaths per 100,000
residents.
AFP
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