Despite recovering from Covid-19, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has commented that he has been pending the pandemic which, he indicated, “It has not surpassed us” and revealed that by February a batch of will arrive from India 870,000 vaccines of laboratories of AstraZeneca.
In a video recording broadcast on YouTube, the head of the Executive revealed that the arrival of Pfizer vaccines will resume on February 10 with one million 500 thousand more doses, so they are expected to arrive in February in Mexico around 6 million doses in total vaccines against Covid.
“I have been working, I have been very attentive to all public affairs and very attentive, in particular to the pandemic. We are trying to continue the same strategy and strengthen what is a principle that no one lacks a bed and not there is a lack of doctors and nurses and equipment, and there is no shortage of medicines in Covid hospitals, so that everyone is treated. Fortunately, we have not been overwhelmed by the circumstance and we have been able to attend to everyone, “he said.
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The federal president recalled that he spoke last Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who offered to send Mexico 870,000 doses of the Sputnik vaccine by the end of next week.
“We are resolving the gathering, counting the vaccines, because in the end this is the most important thing, which will be able to give us security that this terrible pandemic will not continue to cause damage. Then I dedicated myself to this, I spoke with President Putin, who by the way was very fraternal and offered to send us vaccines, Sputnik a vaccine that they are producing, and these vaccines will arrive in a few more days, I think by the end of next week they begin to get these vaccines. “
He indicated that 870,000 AstraZeneca laboratory vaccines were also obtained from India and reported that by February 10 one million 500 thousand doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive.
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“We also got vaccines from part of the agreement we have with them and that here in Mexico these vaccines are being developed, they are being packaged, we are going to bring from India AstraZeneca laboratory. We will have for February around 870 thousand doses, like Sputnik, 870,000.
“We have already established is communication with Pfizer, I do not know if I can comment to them that I spoke with the manager of Pfizer who promised to advance the deliveries, because it had been suspended and it is very likely that from Monday February 10 deliveries will resume, here they will be like a million 500 thousand doses “.
President López Obrador indicated that the UN vaccine mechanism has guaranteed that Mexico will have one million 800 thousand more doses, adding that studies are about to be completed to approve the vaccine in Mexico. Cansino.
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“Also the mechanism that I believe the UN has guaranteed us that by February we will have 1 million 800,000 doses, to this we must add that we will already have for February, because it is about to finish the studies of the vaccine Cansino De laboratories of China, I spoke with the Chinese ambassador to Mexico and there is a lot of willingness to help us with that purpose.
“So we will have for February, we will have about 6 million doses of vaccines and in March we will have double, 12 million doses so I do not rule out that by the end of March we have already vaccinated , still with a first dose to all the older adults in our house.
“You know why we have to give preference to older adults, because it is proven that if we vaccinate older adults, our respectable grandparents reduce Covid mortality by up to 80%, that’s why we have to give preference to adults seniors and the rest of the population have the patience that we are looking for to have both and enough so that as soon as possible we can vaccinate all Mexicans as a universal and free vaccine against Covid-19, ”he stated.
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