Irapuato, Gto. The Secretary of Health, Daniel Díaz Martínez, urged the application of the 420,000 anti-COVID doses, since the process was paused due to the absence of elements from the Mexican Army.
Derived from the mandate revocation consultation, the instruction of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is to go out and vaccinate with military and welfare personnel.
“The vaccine has been here since Monday, but unfortunately, given that this electoral situation is coming on Sunday, the instruction of the president -of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador- is that he go out and vaccinate as we have done with members of the Armed Forces. Armed and Welfare. They don’t have elements because surely they must be working on what’s coming next Sunday and we haven’t been able to go out to vaccinate. It is unfortunate that we have refrigerated vaccines because there are no elements”
He said that they were preliminarily instructed to wait until Monday.
“It is missing that on Monday they go out to celebrate the revocation of mandate and leave us again”
The official explained that the vaccines expire in April and the idea is that the application of the vaccines would have begun this week before the vacation period, which did not happen.
“For what the risk of the vacation period represents, that the population was vaccinated and reduce the possibility of a fifth wave in June and a sixth in December, depending on the fact that the World Health Organization announces that there is a new variant which turns out to be much more contagious than omicron.”
The official pointed out that these AstraZeneca vaccines will be sent to 14 municipalities, including Irapuato and León, where he pointed out that reinforcement is needed.
“It is AstraZeneca, we have very little, very little Sputnik and we are seeing how many the IMSS could have and that we could leave.”
He announced that he will have a meeting with Federal Health authorities this Friday, because on Monday, López Obrador will present the vaccination and health plan in Mexico City.
“We will be there accompanying Governor Diego Sinhue Rodríguez…”
Regarding the application of vaccines for children under 11 years of age, which COFEPRIS has already endorsed, the secretary said that what is known is that the country has not purchased these doses.
He added that those that have been applied to those over twelve years of age have been through injunctions.
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