The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) ordered the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) to deliver the document in which the biopharmaceutical company CanSino notified that its vaccine against Covid-19 It requires a second application six months after being administered, with the aim of reinforcing its protection up to eight times.
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Contrary to what Cofepris pointed out, Commissioner Josefina Román Vergara affirmed that the dissemination of said information does not put national security at risk and, on the contrary, provides certainty that the health authority verified that the security and validity requirements have been met. scientific evidence and that the vaccine has met safety and efficacy standards.
“Clinical trials do not account for procedures, methods or technical specifications on the generation of intelligence in relation to the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19. Nor was there any warning of how disclosing this information would make it possible to destroy, disable or sabotage any strategic matter; or that it hinders actions aimed at preventing and combating the pandemic”
Román Vergara criticized the lack of transparency on the part of Cofepris regarding the management of the pandemic.
“In the action that since the beginning of the pandemic we have repeatedly warned by Cofepris, on occasions, it has failed to respond in time to the requests for access to information that are presented; in others, it has been omitted or deficient in responding to requests for information or sending its arguments, which in no way exempts it from the responsibilities it has as an obligated subject in terms of the law itself, despite, even, of their work during this health contingency.
Román Vergara added that, although the federal government has considered the National Vaccination Campaign against Covid-19 as a strategic matter of national security, this does not imply that, in general, all or any information on this subject should be reserved.
According to the report prepared by the General Directorate of Compliance and Responsibilities of the INAI on the situation presented by the follow-up to the resolutions issued by the plenary session to Cofepris, with instruction, since 2020, 2021 and so far in 2022, only last year, 326 resolutions were fulfilled out of 916 that have been issued; and so far this year, they add up to three of 25, of which, ten, are the sense of responding to the request for information.
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