Through a letter addressed to president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and to the chancellor Marcelo Ebrard, business groups on Chihuahua denounced this Sunday that in the entity, and mainly in Juarez City, not a single dose of the vcradles donated by the United States, despite the promise of his government that these would be destined to border municipalities.
Entrepreneurs expressed their inconvenience considering that Juarez City It was “relegated”On the day of cross-border vaccination, through which the population of 18 to 39 years with vaccines Johnson & Johnson donated, and whose use would help revive the economy in the region.
“With great surprise and concern we learn that, once again, Juarez City has remained relegated of the effort of vaccination aforementioned and that the Federation allocated all of the 1.3 million doses received exclusively to the state of Baja California”, Stated private sector groups in the letter.
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In the missive -signed by Economic Development of Ciudad Juárez, FICOSEC, COMCE Chihuahua, Economic Development of the State of Chihuahua, Strategic Plan of Juárez and Coparmex Ciudad Juárez- it is explained that the cross-border vaccination program against Covid-19 would start on June 16, according to the Health authorities, but that “to date, Juarez City has not received a single vaccine of this program ”.
“The above contradicts the agreement made with USA and continues to leave our population at risk in the face of a new wave of infections, in addition to deeply affecting the rate of normalization of the social and economic activity of our city and state, causing the expansion of closures of the international crosses, which is vital for the city economy”.
It should be remembered that the Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard, at the morning conference of the President López Obrador of June 4 reported that the vaccines of Johnson & Johnson that the United States delivered to Mexico would go to 39 municipalities from five border states.
Ebrard indicated that the doses would be used to vaccinate people from 18 to 40 years of all border municipalities, but mainly in the most populated such as Mexicali, Tijuana, Reynosa Y Juarez City, in order to speed up the reopening of the border and gradually reduce the economic effects in the region.
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The claim of the private initiative of Chihuahua It occurs after last June 25, in Rosa Icela Rodriguez, holder of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), reported that Baja California is the first entity where the whole population older than 18 years has been vaccinated against Covid-19.
According to the official, 44 vaccination posts were installed in the state and a total of inoculó a one million 247 thousand 998 people with the vaccine Johnson & Johnson single dose.
In the municipality of Ensenada 11.03% of the total doses were applied, in Tecate 4.04%, in Rosarito 6.8%, in Mexicali 22.28%, in Tijuana 51.64% and in Saint Quentin 4.21%.
The state of Baja Californiahe added, he will stay with 10 thousand doses of the vaccine Johnson & Johnson to attend the lags.
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