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In Mexico, the first Latin American country to launch a coronavirus vaccination campaign on Thursday, the launch of which was broadcast live at a press conference by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
According to the Mexican newspaper El Universal, the head nurse of the intensive care unit at Hospital Rubén Lenero in the capital was the first to receive the antibody. María Irene Ramírez is one of the nurses who treats patients with coronavirus. “This is the best gift I could have received in 2020,” said the 59-year-old health worker, who volunteered to vaccinate. “Of course we are afraid, but we have to continue … and I want to stay in the line of fire,” said Irene Ramírez.
The first shipment of a vaccine developed jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech against a new type of coronavirus arrived in Mexico on Wednesday. López Obrador followed a controversial strategy in the fight against the coronavirus: He called on Mexicans to stay home and avoid Christmas gatherings, but did not impose restrictions. In Mexico, with a population of 130.5 million, the number of infected exceeds 1.35 million. The number of fatalities in the Latin American country is the fourth highest in the world. So far, 120,311 people have lost their lives to the disease. The number of healers exceeds one million.
(MTI)
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