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López-Gatell explains the ‘mystery’ of the almost 20 million COVID vaccines saved – El Financiero

The ‘mystery’ of COVID-19 vaccines is due to the fact that in rural areas there is difficult access to the internet, so the ‘nominal record’ of the doses applied is not carried out in real time, explained Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary of Health.

There is no loss of vaccines. All are perfectly identified and we know where they are and when they are being applied. In rural areas, where the brigade’s operation is more difficult because there is no internet access, nominal registers are out of phase, not in real time”He said in the ‘morning’.

In this sense, the official commented that the nominal records consist of the vaccination ballots where the basic information data of each person who comes to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are printed. These formats contain the details about the vaccine received, that is, the batch, date and type of dose according to the pharmacist.


Given this, there is a registry where information about each person who has been immunized is collected. This, he said, takes time because there is talk of millions of ballots that are captured.

Despite the rise in the number of infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Mexico, the Ministry of Health has about 20 million doses of vaccines that have not been applied.

According to data updated to July 19, the country has received a total of 74 million 284 thousand 175 doses of biologics from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac, “Sputnik V”, Cansino and Janssen (from Johnson & Johnson), but up to on Monday he has applied 54 million 542 thousand 551 injections, according to figures from the agency.

So 19 million 741 thousand 624 doses had not been given to the population.

According to the latest report released by Health, so far there are 38 million 222 thousand 492 people vaccinated. Of that total, 21 million 700 thousand 199 have received complete schemes (of two doses or one, as is the case of Cansino).

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