AMLO announced that the Mexican vaccine will be called Homeland

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this Sunday from Oaxaca that research is underway in Mexico to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 through Conacyt and other research centers, which one could call “Homeland”.

“With all due respect, because these are initiatives of the Conacyt (National Council for Science and Technology), public research centers but also private companies, we are going to suggest that our vaccine is called Patria. We have already deleted the name, ”the president said at a press conference from the southern city of Oaxaca.

The president proposed this name to mimic Cuban vaccines Soberana 01 and Soberana 02, which are under development by the Finlay Vaccine Institute.

“In Mexico, there is also research”, López Obrador recalled.

During the press conference, the Mexican Secretary for External Relations, Marcelo Ebrard explained that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) has registered six clinically-phase vaccines: two Cubans, one Mexican, one Chilean, one Argentinian and one Brazilian.

The chancellor said that “Of course” Mexico maintains “communication” with Cuba so that its vaccines can study phase three, which is applied in humanss, in Mexican territory.

The government of Mexico announced this Sunday the start of vaccination against the covid-19 of adults over 60, after the application of vaccines to health workers began in late December.

Authorities will start vaccination in various parts of the country on Monday after receiving a shipment of 870,000 doses at dawn The British laboratory AstraZeneca produced in India, under a contract to purchase two million vaccines.

“We want no later than mid-April 15,717,170 adults over 60 (in the country) are already vaccinated even with the first dose, ”President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a press conference.

Mexico the application to staff began on December 24 health department of the vaccine produced by the American-German alliance Pfizer-BioNTech, with which it has agreed to purchase 34.4 million doses.

The government said it expected to receive more vaccines from this lab on Tuesday, which had suspended deliveries due to its plant’s expansion in Europe.

“With what we have received today and what will arrive on Tuesday, we will receive more or less double the dose of all those who arrived in Mexico between December 23 and that date,” said the Mexican Minister of Affairs. foreign Marcelo Ebrard at the same press conference.

“Until today, only the Pfizer vaccine has been applied, with the arrival of AstraZeneca, this vaccine will also be applied,” he added.

Mexico It also has purchasing agreements with the Sino-Canadian project CanSinoBio, for 35 million doses, and with AstraZeneca, for 77.4 million, in addition to being part of the international COVAX mechanism – created to help distribute vaccines to lower-income countries – which allows it to purchase 51.6 million additional doses.

“The production of vaccines begins, over time there will be more production, right here in Mexico The AstraZeneca and CanSino vaccines are already being processed, ”added López Obrador.

AstraZeneca vaccines arrived this Sunday from India, which It will allow the reactivation of Mexico’s vaccination plan, blocked for three weeks due to delays in drug shipments.

Mexico was the first country Latin America will begin application of the drug Pfizer and BioNTech on December 24, but so far only 726,313 vaccines have been applied and only 86,198 people have received the two doses of Pfizer vaccine needed to achieve immunity.

Mexico has 1,988,695 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and 173,771 deaths to date.

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