President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has attacked those who resort to purchasing vaccines from “famous pharmaceutical companies” to combat covid-19. “They don’t like it because they are not going to inject me with communism,” he ironized, after ensuring that the application of the biological is guaranteed free of charge in the federal Health system but with the signatures of Abdala and Sputnik V, Cuban and Russian respectively. This occurs nine days after the Pfizer antigen was opened for sale in some pharmaceutical chains nationwide, followed by Moderna, both of American origin. With a cost that ranges between 799 and 859 pesos, about 50 dollars, citizens have privileged the purchase of these vaccines.
In his morning conference this Friday, the president even referred to the Mexican Patria vaccine, which is days away from being administered in public hospitals. “Any citizen can go to a health center and get vaccinated, it is free. I got vaccinated with Abdala and without any problem, but the conservative fanaticism and behind it, the business, the bills, the money that is the true God of these forgers,” said López Obrador. Regarding the inauguration of the so-called “Mega Pharmacy of Wellbeing”, he announced that it will also store vaccines against SARS-CoV-2.
With a delay of two years and in the midst of high demand to acquire the Pfizer and Moderna biologics against covid-19, the federal government announced this Thursday that it will begin the application of the Mexican vaccines. The first people to receive it will be the passengers of the Mayan Train, the Interoceanic Train and Mexicana de Aviación. According to the National Council of Science, Technology and Humanities, it is “a symbolic way of making homeland in different ways: with the free vaccination of the Mexican biological, and with the inauguration of these great transportation works created by and for the people of Mexico “, the public body stated in a press release.
There are at least six chains in which the antigen has been put on sale: Farmacias del Ahorro, Farmacias Benavides, Farmacias San Pablo, Farmacias Guadalajara, Walmart and additionally in five headquarters of the Mexican Red Cross, in all of which long lines have been reported. from the first hours of the day to reach any of the doses offered. However, the president has again referred to the media and questioned them for reporting on the high demand; as well as how insufficient the supply of antigen has been for pharmaceutical companies. “Ciro (Gómez Leyva) saying that there are lines at the pharmacies buying vaccines, they are sold out,” he said.
After two months of evaluations, on December 7, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) granted the corresponding registration to market the Pfizer and Moderna antigens. Meanwhile, one day before they opened for sale to the public, the Mexican president ruled out that his government would seek to regulate the price of biologicals in the private market. The president has guaranteed access to free vaccines for the entire population.
“I don’t really agree with regulating prices. Because? There are vaccines, I got vaccinated about a month ago, I got both vaccines, the Covid one and the influenza one, and very well, I didn’t even have a reaction,” she announced in her morning conference on December 19.
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2023-12-29 20:14:39
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