Guerrero Population Refusing Covid-19 Vaccination with Cuban “Abdala” Vaccine: Federal Official

Most of the population of Guerrero has not agreed to be vaccinated against Covid-19 with the biological of Cuban origin “Abdalá”, revealed the delegate of federal social programs in Guerrero, Iván Hernández Díaz, for this reason the little influx to vaccination points that have been established in recent times.

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However, the federal official indicated that the refusal may not be because of the biological but because of the confidence of the population that has seen a decrease in infections; “before this biological arrived in Guerreropeople stopped getting vaccinated.”

He mentioned that There are places in which, for some reason, infections and hospitalizations due to coronaviruses are on the rise, as in the municipality of Chilapa de Álvarez, where for that reason the vaccination campaign against this disease had to be reinforced, that is, in that municipality of The lower Mountain there is a special attention.

reported that, at this time, the Cuban “Abdalá” vaccine is applied to the inhabitants of 20 municipalities of the entity, in which At least 400 doses were distributed for each vaccination post.

Regarding the non-acceptance of the population to the Cuban vaccine, The state official recognized the situation, because there is a marked decrease in people in the biological application centers, but he stated that all Coronavirus vaccines are safe and efficient; “When the infections dropped people stopped going to vaccination centers even though they had the Pfizer vaccine.”

However, Hernández Díaz emphasized that “the vaccine is still necessary” and he said that if the federal government did not buy the Pfizer brand vaccine, it is “because there is a great demand and fortunately now that there is more supply of biologicals”.

He also mentioned that It was positive that the reinforcements against the Covid that people received have been from different vaccines, why that contributed to a greater defense against the virus.

It should be noted that The Mexican government has purchased nine million Abdala vaccines against Covid-19 from Cuba, and journalistic reports indicate that in states such as Michoacán, Hidalgo, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, Morelos and Sonora, records establish that between 45 and 90 percent of the intended doses were not used.