The Mexican government presents this Tuesday the vaccination plan against covid-19.
The vaccination strategy against covid 19 implies great challenges such as administration and management requirements, the low availability of vaccines in the short term and not affecting the application of other vaccines, says JorgeAlcocer Varela, secretary of Health.
The government of Mexico guarantees the quality of vaccines to protect life, launched the federal official in morning conference.
Of 51 vaccine candidates, 13 are in phase III and there are 153 that are in preclinical evaluation, Alcocer explained.
“The vaccine opens a horizon of hope for the management of pandemic in Mexico and around the world; However, we must be aware that vaccination is not a matter of a day, “said the Undersecretary of Prevention and Promotion of Health, Hugo López-Gatell.
The secretary of Health It has already signed a contract with Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Covax for the purchase of covid vaccines, in the next few days the agreement with CanSino will be signed, López Gatell explained.
He detailed Mexico’s strategy to reduce deaths from covid-19 in which he points out different keys for the vaccination plan:
-Global access problem to the vaccine covid.
-Limited production in the world.
-There are different national vaccination priorities that differentiate us from other countries.
-National, physical and operational infrastructure, which is available.
-Vaccination should not be taken as the only mitigation and prevention strategy of the new coronavirus.
WHO WILL HAVE PRIORITY TO BE IMMUNIZED?
The undersecretary highlighted that the goal of coverage of the vaccine covid will be at least 75 percent of the population aged 16 and over, with the aim of reducing deaths from the virus.
The first to receive the vaccine covid will be the workers of the Health, said.
For the general application, the government prioritized the application depending on the risk in seven stages, separating the groups by decades of age, starting with people 80 years of age or older. “Everyone will have access to vaccine“said López-Gatell.
THE STAGES OF VACCINATION
From December 2020 to February 2021, personnel from Health; from February to April to people aged 60 or over, from April to May to people aged 50 to 59, from May to June from 40 to 49 years and from June 2021 to March 2022 to the rest of the population, López explained -Gatell.
The Armed Forces will support logistics to apply the vaccine covid to the staff of Health. 107,500 workers will be vaccinated in Mexico City and 17,500 in Coahuila, the undersecretary said.
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MEXICO HAS ACCESS TO 9 COVID VACCINES: EBRARD
Mexico has already signed a contract with Covax and already has the possibility of accessing 9 covid vaccine candidates, he explained Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, Secretary of Foreign Relations.
The President gave the instruction that Mexico have access to the vaccine covid almost at the same time as the first country in the world, detailed Ebrard, who recalled that in the visit to the US that was a priority issue.
The government plans to sign this week the purchase contract for 35 million covid vaccines with CanSino, Ebrard Casaubón said.
In addition to CanSino and Janssen, three other vaccines will carry out Phase III trials in Mexico: Novavax, Curevac and Sputnik V, the Foreign Minister indicated.
Ebrard Casaubón indicated that Cofepris has already been requested authorization to use Remdesivir and Bamlanivimab, investigational drugs to treat covid patients.
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Already in a round of questions and answers, the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador noted that we have no financial problems for the purchase of covid vaccines. We already have the funds for that purpose, they are available to start 20 billion pesos by December.
The President López Obrador said that he will wait to be vaccinated until the fourth stage, which is his age, which will begin in February.
In turn, López Gatell said that people who already had covid also have to be vaccinated.
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