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Mexico applied this Thursday to a 59-year-old nurse the first dose of the covid-19 vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical duo Pfizer / BioNTech, according to images broadcast by the government from a hospital.
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“There are few doses but (…) Mexico is the first in Latin America to have this vaccine,” said the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador at his morning press conference.
Nurse María Irene Ramírez received the dose at the General Hospital, in Ciudad de
Mexico, where vaccination began, which seeks to protect health personnel in the first phase fight against the advance of the new coronavirus.
(Read here: Mexico signs contract with Pfizer to obtain 34.4 million vaccines).
The pandemic leaves more than 120,300 deaths and more than 1,350,000 infections in this country of 129 million inhabitants.
“I’m a little nervous, but very happy. It is the best gift I could receive in 2020, it gives me more security and more courage to continue in the war against an invisible enemy. We are afraid but we must continue, “said Ramírez, with her face protected, before being inoculated.
At the end of March we will be having 7.5 million doses of Pfizer and it will continue until we have 34.4 million doses
The second dose was applied to a nurse in Querétaro and the third to a doctor in Toluca, cities in the center of the country, according to the television broadcast.
On this day, 2,975 people who work in covid-19 units including doctors, nurses, orderlies, laboratory workers, and cleaners. The campaign began the day after the first batch of 3,000 vaccines from Belgium arrived in the country by air.
(Read also: Chile faces coronavirus with vaccination campaign).
The doses are protected by the Armed Forces and have a chip to be monitored. These first vaccines will serve to “calibrate the cold chain” of -70ºC that demands and fine-tune the process if necessary, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, in charge of the procedures to acquire the vaccine, reported at the same conference.
Mexico also has preliminary purchase agreements with the Chinese-Canadian project CanSinoBio, for 35 million doses, and with the British AstraZeneca, for 77.4 million doses, in addition to being part of the international Covax mechanism, which allows it to buy 51.6 million additional vaccines.
AFP
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