Vaccination started in Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica «kleinezeitung.at



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A nurse in Mexico became the first Latin American woman to be vaccinated. In Brazil, there are already almost 190,000 deaths per crown.

09.09 am, December 25, 2020

Start of vaccination in Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica © AFP

Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica have as the first countries in Latin America began vaccinating the population against the coronavirus. The start of vaccination in Mexico was announced during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador broadcast live on Thursday (local time). The head of nursing at the intensive care unit of the Rubén Leñero Hospital in Mexico City was the first Latin American woman to receive the corona vaccine, according to the newspaper “El Universal.”

María Irene Ramírez is part of the health workforce that treats first-line patients related to Covid-19. “This is the best gift I could get in 2020”, said the 59-year-old, who volunteered to get vaccinated. “Sure we’re scared, but we have to move on … and I want to stay in the line of fire,” he said.

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Zulema Riquelme

Shortly after Ramírez, Zulema got Riquelme the first vaccination in Chile. “So that everyone gets vaccinated,” the Chilean newspaper “La Tercera” quoted Riquelme, who works at the “Metropolitan Hospital” in Santiago de Chile. In Costa Rica, Elizabeth Castillo, 91, who lives in a retirement home in Tres Ríos, Cartago province, was the first citizen to receive the vaccine. All three countries used the Biontech and Pfizer vaccine. The first batch of the vaccine arrived in Mexico from Belgium on Wednesday. According to media reports, it came from Pfizer’s production plant in Puurs, from where the vaccine will be delivered for Germany.

Large numbers and conflicting strategies

Mexican President López Obrador led one so far contradicting the crown strategy. Mexicans were asked to stay home and eventually refrain from the Christmas holidays. But the left-wing populist, like the Brazilian head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, rejected the restrictions.

In Mexico, which ranks tenth among the most populous countries with almost 130 million inhabitants, at least 120,000 Corona-related deaths have so far been registered according to official information the fourth highest number in the world. The Brazilian Ministry of Health reported 58,428 new infections on Christmas Eve. This brings the total number of infections in Brazil to 7.423 million. The number of deaths increased by 762 to 189,982 in 24 hours. Brazil has the highest number of infections and deaths worldwide from the coronavirus pandemic after the United States.

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