Mexico City / 14.12.2020 21:41:52
In Mexico it will start the National Vaccination Plan against virus SARS-CoV-2 “Around December 22”, with 125 thousand doses of Pfizer that will be applied in the Mexico City and Coahuila, reported Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion.
“That is our plan. At this moment they are working in Coahuila; Today in the morning, there was a lockdown of the technical and logistics group that includes the Armed Forces. On Wednesday they will be in Mexico City and a general training will be given to all the personnel who will be involved in the application of this first phase, the start-up. On December 18 there will be a drill”, He explained.
The government of Mexico has already signed a contract with Pfizer and, at the time the request is made, the official said, the pharmaceutical company will have eight days to deliver the first batch of vaccines, that is, 125 thousand of the 250 thousand agreed.
“The contract is already in place, the moment you ask ‘send it to me’, then they have eight days to send. Our plan is that in the third week of December we begin to vaccinate ”, he said to
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During the evening press conference, López-Gatell asserted that the arrival of the vaccine will not end the pandemic overnight, so he asked the population to maintain preventive measures.
With the rise in infections in the world, mainly in the northern hemisphere, López-Gatell said that in the case of Mexico “it is expected that, at least, until spring” the spread of infections will continue to increase.
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