The subsecertario for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, reported on the modifications in the National Vaccination Strategy that so far it has applied 25 million 626 thousand 413 doses against covid-19 in Mexico.
During the coronavirus conference, the undersecretary indicated that the measures will aim “go faster and be more efficient “in the vaccination campaign anticovid, which only yesterday administered 634 thousand 916 doses.
“We are going to maintain an average of 500 to 600 thousand daily vaccinations“, said López-Gatell, who clarified that there may be” fluctuations “in this figure.
Among the modifications implemented, the undersecretary mentioned a anticipated programming where “we are assuming that the reception of vaccines will be increasingly acceleratedAccording to what we are seeing with the capacity of manufacturing and delivery delivery, on the part of the pharmaceutical companies. “
Specifically, this measure will allow “anticipating, with a schedule, greater than two and a half weeks, which are the specific municipalities that will be vaccinating and therefore the vaccination centers that will be used“.
It also pointed out that vaccination “macro-centers” and “mega-centers” will be established in urban areas, especially in metropolises to “have a very accelerated flow of the immunization process”.
He also stated that will increase the staff in charge of administering doses against coronavirus, while thanking the Mexican Institute of Social Security (SSC) for doubling the number of brigade members of the Roadrunner Operation.
“We also (thank) our armed forces, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Navy. The National Guard, attached to the Ministry of Public Security, also participates in the entire logistics and security component.”
Regarding the vaccination figures, he stressed that 17 million 386 thousand 61 people have been vaccinated, which represents 19 percent of the population over 18 years of age.
Of the total number of immunized people, 5 million 801 thousand 305 have half a scheme, while 11 million 584 thousand 756 –67 percent– have already received the necessary doses.
He claimed that only Chihuahua and Puebla have yet to complete the vaccination process for educational personnel, since “the CanSino vaccine was released in a smaller quantity”, therefore the dose allocation was reduced.
Mexico has received or released 33 million 469 thousand 715 anticovid vaccines from five different laboratories. Of these, 163 million 365 thousand 105 are from Pfizer / BioNTech; 6 million 59 thousand 300, from AstraZeneca; 7 million, from SinoVac; 2 million 400 thousand, from Sputnik V and 4 million 645 thousand 310 from Cansino.
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