“It will be a good day”: Marcelo Ebrard announced that this Thursday 487,500 doses of Pfizer and 500,000 of Sinovac will arrive

Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, Secretary for External Relations (SRE), announced that This Thursday, April 15, two shipments of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in Mexico. It is 487,500 doses produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and 500,000 developed by Sinovac.

Thanks to her Twitter account, the Chancellor assured that tomorrow “It will be a good day”, because with the antigens that will reach the country, they will add 17,888,350 doses received since December 23.

“For tomorrow, Thursday, 487 thousand five hundred doses of Pfizer and 500 thousand of Sinovac will arrive, we will reach 17,888,350 doses of vaccine against covid-19 in total. It will be a good day “

On top of that, the manager added a video showing some containers in circulation. At the bottom he added: “Operation of loading doses of Sinovac vaccine already in flight to our country. They are coming tomorrow “.

According to the federal government tally, Mexico has reached 16,900,850 vaccine doses to prevent infection against SARS-CoV-2, of which 6,971,250 correspond to Pfizer-BioNTech, 3,589,300 to AstraZeneca, 4 million to SinoVac, 900,000 to Sputnik V and 1,440,300 to CansinoBio.

Considering the strong demand for this biological product in the world, the Ministry of External Relations (SRE) He reported that Ebrard Casaubón will travel to Moscow, Russia, to manage the arrival of more antigens in the country.

By a statement, the agency reported that The Chancellor will leave on April 24 and will remain in the European nation until the 28 of the same month.

“The visit of Foreign Minister Ebrard is part of the agile and open political dialogue that the two countries maintain, and in the spirit of bilateral cooperation on various issues, in particular that of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent appeal between the presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and of Russia, Vladimir Poutin, held on January 25 is a sample of this agile and open dialogue ”, declared the SRE.

It should be remembered that one of the vaccines applied in Mexico is Sputnik V, which was one of the first to hit the market and is very effective in preventing coronavirus disease. Participating in the mission to manage more antigens, the official will meet with Russian authorities and institutions involved in the development, production and distribution of said biological product.

He will also visit the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, entity leading this project.

“Sputnik V is one of the vaccines that are part of the biological portfolio with which the necessary supply is guaranteed to achieve the objectives of the national vaccination plan”, said the federal agency.

Likewise, he stressed that one of the common goals of Russia and Mexico is access. “complete and timely vaccinations, equipment, drugs and medical supplies to deal with COVID-19, “therefore, dialogue between the two nations is essential.

And is the coronavirus epidemic gone 210,812 dead in the country. On top of that, they recorded 2,291,246 cases confirmed as of February 28, 2020. However, since last December, the federal government began applying the vaccine to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2, accumulating until the last cut. 12,252,769 injected doses.

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