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Mexico City — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador applied on Tuesday during his morning conference the Cuban Abdala vaccine that his government will use as a booster against covid-19 and whose effectiveness has been questioned by some specialists.
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López Obrador defended the vaccines developed by Cuba and Russia during the conference.
“Don’t be confused,” said López Obrador after receiving the Cuban booster and another influenza vaccine during an event at the government palace where the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, was also vaccinated.
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The president, who was infected with Covid-19 for the third time six months ago, considered the comments that have been made against the effectiveness of the Cuban and Russian vaccines “giant absurd” and maintained that the criticism responds to interests, although he did not offer details. .
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“There has been misinformation, all out of interest or bad faith,” said López Obrador when defending the evaluations carried out by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) for the approval of the inoculants and announced that the sale will soon be authorized in the country of the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines.
Ruy López, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, announced on Tuesday that a favorable opinion has already been issued for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and that more information was requested in the case of AstraZeneca.
López Obrador reported that the Patria vaccine, developed by Mexico, is now ready and could be available by November. Some analysts have pointed out that the Mexican biological is not designed for the new variants of the coronavirus.
The Mexican government announced in September that more than nine million doses of the Russian Sputnik and Abdala vaccines would be used as part of a national reinforcement plan against covid-19 that will be applied in public hospitals to the population over 60 years of age. pregnant women and people with comorbidities and high-risk diseases.
At that time Alcocer said that Mexico had more than 5.38 million doses of the Cuban vaccine and that the arrival of four million units of the Russian vaccine was expected.
The 69-year-old ruler was infected with Covid-19 at the beginning of 2021 and a year later he fell ill with the virus again. After the second infection, López Obrador, who suffered a heart attack in 2013, underwent a catheterization.
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