The Secretaries of Health and External relationships they reported that today they arrived to the country 2 million 745 thousand 900 doses of vaccines packed against Covid-19, of which 2 million 160 thousand 900 are from AstraZeneca that were donated by the government of the United States, and 585 thousand acquired by the government of our country to PfizerBioNTech.
During the receipt of the shipment from AstraZeneca, the Director of Economic Affairs for North America of the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE), Farid Hannan Goyri, indicated that the United States has donated more than 13 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19, of which 8.2 million are from AstraZeneca, 3.5 million from Moderna and 1.35 million from Johnson & Johnson.
He stressed that, in the face of the health crisis, both countries have come together “today, under a shared vision, we have opted for North American cooperation as our best tool to make this region safer.”
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The administrator of the Toluca Customs, Julio Vinicio Lara Mendoza, stressed that the collaboration in matters of biologicals is the result of the good communication between the presidents of the United States, Joseph Biden, and of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “This effort is in addition to those made in other parts of the world to combat the pandemic.”
While the Minister Counselor of Public Affairs of the United States Embassy in Mexico, William Ostick, recognized that the Mexican government works every day to get ahead in the face of the health crisis and is committed to contributing to universal, timely and equitable access to the vaccine.
The flight containing the biologics arrived in Mexico at 7:19 am at the Toluca International Airport “Lic. Adolfo López Mateos ”. With this amount, there are 77 million 198 thousand 400 doses received by AstraZeneca, which includes those that have arrived packaged from abroad and those that have been packaged in the country.
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Mexico acquires 585 thousand vaccines from PfizerBioNTech
Almost two hours later, a flight from Cincinnati, United States, arrived at Terminal 1 of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) “Benito Juárez”, with 585 thousand vaccines purchased by the Mexican government from PfizerBioNTech.
With this shipment number 95, the pharmaceutical company has delivered 43 million 289 thousand 025 doses since December 23.
98 elements of the Mexican Army participated in the arrival, transfer and security of the vaccines of both shipments.
Faced with the winter season, the Ministry of Health reiterates the call to the population to reinforce preventive measures to avoid respiratory infections such as Covid-19.
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Emphasizes the importance of the correct use of the mask, especially in closed spaces such as public transport; healthy distance, washing hands with soap and water – if necessary, application of alcohol gel – as many times as necessary; ventilation in closed spaces and maintain precautions in public spaces.
It is also necessary to be vaccinated against Covid-19, since scientific evidence has shown that it reduces the risk of presenting serious disease and death. Immunization continues in permanent posts for laggards and pregnant women from 18 years of age.
The country has received 128 million 264 thousand 125 packaged vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, CanSino Biologics, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
While in Mexican territory, the Drugmex laboratory has packaged 14 million 24 thousand 840 doses of CanSino Biologics, and the Liomont laboratory 36 million 273 thousand 300 biologicals of AstraZeneca, which makes a total of 50 million 298 thousand 140 vaccines packaged in the country .
In sum, since December 23, Mexico has had 178 million 562 thousand 265 biologicals available.
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