A social media scam related to the sale of vaccines against COVID-19 with the brands CanSino, Snopharm and Sinovac put the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) on alert, which issued an alert.
Any product offered as a vaccine against Covid-19 that is for sale through internet pages, social networks, by telephone, pharmacies, hospitals and points of sale, constitutes a health risk because it is of doubtful origin.
COFEPRIS warns about the illegal marketing of products improperly offered as vaccines against COVID-19 from the companies Cansino Biologics, Sinopharm Group Co. LTD. and Sinovac.https://t.co/YNONpAHoow pic.twitter.com/2R60ehFaZr
– COFEPRIS (@COFEPRIS) February 27, 2021
Cofepris stressed that in Mexico the application of the vaccine against COVID-19 is free and is only applied in accordance with the “National Vaccination Policy against the SARSCoV-2 virus”, established by the Ministry of Health.
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He also asked the population to report the establishments, hospitals or pharmacies that sell vaccines through this page.
In Mexico, the vaccines that have been approved by Cofepris for application are those of Pfizer BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, CanSino Biologics y Sinovac. At this time, only health personnel and seniors have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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