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Q24N – The alliance of the German BioTech, which developed the vaccine against COVID-19, and the Pfizer consortium delivered documents to the Commission for the Protection of Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) of the Government of Mexico for the sanitary registration of the vaccine.
“BioNtech / Pfizer has already delivered the health registration application file to Cofepris, it is important to be clear that it will be delivered, in the next few hours, starting tomorrow business day (November 28), it will be reviewed if the file is complete, but it is already good news, ”said Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, in charge of managing the pandemic in Mexico.
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López-Gatell made the announcement on Friday during the daily report on Covid-19.
Mexico reports (as of November 28) 104,873 deaths and 1,090,675 confirmed cases. López-Gatell recalled that one of the commitments of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is that Mexico have timely access to the vaccine.
BioNtech / Pfizer vaccine approval on December 10?
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said earlier in the week that Mexico could begin vaccination in December because the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve the BioNtech / Pfizer vaccine on December 10 and that a few days later the Cofepris would do the same.
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“We are going to work very quickly to approve this vaccine, which depends on other parties, specifically the companies, since it is not under our control, but we will facilitate the work,” Lopez-Gatell promised this Friday.
López-Gatell recognized the logistical challenge posed by the BioNtech / Pfizer vaccine, the first to announce its efficacy. This vaccine must be kept at 70 degrees Celsius below zero in a deep-freezing system that “no country has,” argued the official.
Even so, he announced that they are in conversation with the company, which has offered a technological tool for Mexico to distribute the drug.
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