Mexico City. Tonight a second shipment arrived in Mexico with 4 million 907 thousand 500 doses of the Abdala vaccine against covid-19, with this 9 million organic products produced in Cuba that the country receives. The first arrived on November 25 and contained 4,92,500 doses.
At 20:35 on Thursday, the Mexican Air Force Hercules arrived at the “Felipe Ángeles” International Airport (AIFA) in Zumpango, Mexico State, from Havana, Cuba, with packaged Abdala vaccines.
Staff from the Biological and Reactive Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex), the National Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Censia) and the Federal Commission for Protection attended the arrival, transfer and securing of the doses from Health Risks (Cofepris), as well as elements of the Mexican Army and National Guard.
With doses arrived and since the first shipment arrived in the country on December 23, 2020, Mexico has received 198 million 139 thousand 345 packaged vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, the Gamaleya National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Research, CanSino Biologics, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Abdala.
Similarly, in Mexico, the Drugmex laboratory packaged 14 million 24 thousand 840 doses of CanSino Biologics and the Liomont laboratory 42 million 991 thousand 100 AstraZeneca biologicals, for a total of 57 million 15 thousand 940 vaccines packaged in the country.
In short, as of December 23, 2020, Mexico has 255 million 155 thousand 285 organic products available.
