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The Pfizer vaccine first arrived in Mexico on the 23rd (local time)▶ Click here to enlarge the view
The vaccine has also landed in Central and South America, where nearly 500,000 people died from the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
On the morning of the 23rd (local time), a cargo plane leaving Belgium with the Corona 19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and German Bioentech arrived at the Mexico City International Airport in Mexico.
This is the first time that an approved COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Latin American countries.
The vaccine that the Mexican government eagerly awaited was true ‘VIP’ hospitality.
The main ministers, including Foreign Minister Marcelo Evraard and Health Minister Jorge Alkoser, met directly at the airport terminal, and the army in charge of transporting and storing the vaccine moved the vaccine from the airport.
Mexican broadcasters showed great interest by broadcasting live in real time from the aircraft’s landing site at the airport until the vehicle carrying the vaccine was escorted by the military and transferred to a military school in Mexico City.
Mexico will begin vaccinating medical personnel from medical institutions in Mexico City and northern Saltillo on the 24th.
Health Minister Alcoser welcomed the arrival of the vaccine, but warned of excessive optimism, saying: “You should not have the naive belief that the fight against the virus is over.”
Mexican ministers will receive the COVID-19 vaccine▶ Click here to enlarge the view
The Mexican government has announced that 1.4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive one after another in late January next year. Mexico previously signed a contract with Pfizer to purchase 34.4 million doses of the vaccine.
The accumulated crown 19 confirmed in Mexico is 1.34 million and the death toll is 119,000, and the number of confirmed cases has increased considerably in the metropolitan area.
As expected, vaccinations will begin soon in Chile, Argentina, and Costa Rica in Central America, where the spread of Corona 19 has not abated.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said that the first 10,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine will arrive on the morning of the 24th, and that vaccination will begin immediately. In Chile, medical personnel are the first to be vaccinated.
In Costa Rica, about 10,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive late on the 23rd and vaccination will begin with medical workers on the 24th.
Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica have already approved the emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine and have been waiting for the vaccine to arrive.
In the case of Argentina, a plane that was to carry the Russian Sputnik V vaccine arrived in Moscow, Russia. On the 24th, at noon on the 24th, they will return to Argentina with 300,000 doses of vaccine, according to the local news agency Télam.
Before the arrival of the vaccine, the Argentine health authorities approved today the emergency use of the Sputnik V vaccine. It is the third country to approve the use of the Sputnik V vaccine, after Russia and Belarus.
Argentina also approved the emergency use of Pfizer’s vaccine that day, but has not yet completed a purchase contract with Pfizer.
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