Mexico, Mexico.
Migrants passing through Mexico during the national vaccination plan against covid-19, which is already underway, will also be vaccinated under the age scheme implemented by the federal government, the authority said on Saturday. of Health.
“This population is highly vulnerable and is fully contemplated in the vaccination strategy,” the director of Epidemiological Surveillance of Noncommunicable Diseases told a news conference. Gabriela Nucamendi.
He said a person with a “different” migratory status does not have documents as a population registration key, but is being contemplated and experts from the Ministry of Health are already working on a one-off strategy “for capturing this population “.
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Migration to Mexico has been on the rise since October 2018, when caravans with thousands of Central American migrants began entering the country to reach United States although during 2020 the migratory flow is low due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The official noted that even if it is a migrant population “and they are only passing through the country,” the Mexican government will also be contemplating the same vaccination strategy, that is, by age, to direct them to special modules.
According to the vaccination plan, Mexico began in January with the immunization of health personnel and expects vaccination for older adults over the age of 60 to begin this month. with whom doses of Pfize would be usedr by people from remote communities; Sputnik V for those living in medium-sized communities, and heavy for older adults living in large cities.
This week, the Government of Mexico began the registration on the Internet of those over 60 and in this regard the official reported that to date 3.27 million older adults have been registered and recalled that the goal is to reach 14, 46 million people in this age range living in the country.
Mexico has agreements for 34,400,000 doses of Pfizer, 77,400,000 of the British AstraZeneca, 35 million Cansino and 51.5 million from the COVAX platform.
In addition, it negotiated with Russia 24 million doses of the formula Sputnik V.
As of this Saturday, Mexico has accumulated 1,920,000 confirmed infections and a total of 165,786 deaths since the start of the pandemic on February 28 in that country.