After nearly a month of supply disruption, 486,525 Pfizer vaccines have arrived in Mexico

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard reported via social media the arrival of a batch of Pfizer vaccines at Mexico City airport.

Ebrard Casaubón posted on his Twitter account un video showing the landing of an airplane on one of the AICM runways.

The plane landed in Mexico City at around 1:16 p.m. local time, with approximately 495,000 vaccines; previously in Monterrey, Nuevo León, 5,000 vaccines were received, for distribution and application in the region.

“They finished this job and today half a million of the vaccines I just mentioned are coming to Mexico. Then he resumes and commits, and this is how it is agreed in the contracts with Pfizer, to provide each week a number which will grow, a number of vaccines which will grow per week ”Ebrard said during the vaccine reception ceremony at CDMX airport.

“Today, 486,525 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have arrived in Mexico. They will be used to continue vaccinating frontline healthcare workers at Covid hospitals in all 32 states “, under Secretary of Health and coronavirus strategist Hugo López-Gatell reported on social media

The secretary for external relations announced the arrival of vaccines from Pfizer laboratories, during the press conference of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; He stressed that with this delivery, the supply of the antigen is resumed, after almost a month of suspension.

“The Pfizer vaccines are the first we have received in Mexico since December 23; to date, with the two flights en route, the one that Dr López-Gatell has already mentioned will arrive at 9:00 a.m., a little after 9:00 a.m. in Monterrey, and the one who will arrive in Mexico … Today 1 million 257 thousand 750 doses of Pfizer will have been received, which, as you know, we need two doses.

Pfizer had a supply disruption for almost a month, between January and February, because they closed their factory in Europe, which was not planned and it affected us but also other countries of the world, but now it resumes with Today’s shipping II send you every week, what is our commitment? I told them that The European Union has given authorizations for the next batch of vaccine next week, and by March it has committed to deliver to Mexico, or deliver, 5 million 181,000 150 doses, that’s what that they wrote and ratified “the chancellor reported.

Ebrard insured that until today, February 16, the Mexican government has 232.33 million vaccines contracted, prepaid and committed with various pharmaceutical companies and with the United Nations (UN) mechanism.

Among the contracts are pharmaceutical companies Pfizer-BioNtech, with 34.3 million doses; AstraZeneca, with 77.4 million; CanSino BIO, with 35 million; COVAX, with 52.5 million and Sputnik V, with 24 million.

He also recalled that vaccines NOVAVAX and Curevac continue their phase III in Mexico, pending, CanSino and Janssen they have completed this step. The official stressed the interest of the health sector in including the latter in the country’s vaccination strategy because, like the Chinese alternative, it only requires one application.

The Mexican government has also provided vaccines for AstraZeneca laboratories through three channels: the first, from its facilities in India, with which it has signed a contract for two million doses, of which 840,000 arrived last Sunday and were used to start the second phase of vaccination for adults over 60 years.

The second, thanks to the joint work between Mexico and Argentina for the production and packaging of the antidote. In this modality, Mexico has an agreement to pack and distribute 77.4 million doses nationally and 250 million for Latin America.

And the third with the multilateral mechanism organized among the members of the UN, Covax, with which the allocation of 6.4 million doses of this drug produced in South Korea was agreed.. In total, Mexico purchased 51.5 million vaccines from the mechanism.

“They have already told us that we will receive between 1.6 and 2.2 million doses between February and March, and for Monday 22 or from Monday 22, they were informed of the arrival date of these vaccines. “

With the arrival of the first 840,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India and Mexico have started second phase of national COVID-19 vaccination plan Intended for the elderly, from 333 remote towns in the country.

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