In a surprise statement, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has said that the vaccination against COVID-19 will end in the month of October. Thus, the national vaccination plan has been advanced five months, and the president even anticipated that in the month of July vaccination will begin for person 40 to 49 years of age.
In the morning conference in which advances regarding the pandemic and vaccination are also announced, Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell said that 23.6 million doses have been applied to a total of 15.7 million people, a “19% of the eligible population“said the undersecretary.
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The goal is a very ambitious one, even compared to the original vaccination plan: according to the program of the national vaccination plan, applications would end in March 2022, when universal coverage was reached, defined as scope 70% of the population.
However, the eligible population is below that threshold.
A number that could have adjustments
With the undersecretary announcing that 19% of the eligible population (15.7 million people) have been vaccinated, he also said between the lines that it is planned to vaccinate to 82.6 million people approximately, which is equivalent to a 65% of the total population of the country, since the INEG estimate for the 2020 census it is 126 million Mexican men and women. That’s 10% less than 75% of the population needed to “universal coverage” according to the national vaccination plan.
The solution could be in the vaccination of adolescents older than 12 years, a petition that Pfizer will present in Mexico, after your vaccination be approved for that purpose in Canada Y in United States. If a vaccine for adolescents is approved in Mexico, the eligible population would grow, a higher percentage of the population could be reached, but it is also likely that vaccination extends for more months.
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Mexico has received a total of 29.7 million vaccines, of which 12 million are from Pfizer, 2.6 million from AstraZeneca, 6 million from SinoVac, 2.4 million from Sputnik V and 4.6 million from CanSino.
Of the 15.7 million people vaccinated, 1.1 million are health personnel, 1.8 million are educational personnel, 10.7 million are people aged 60 and over, 2 million are people 50 to 59 years old, and 7,133 people are pregnant women.
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