Andres López Obrador claimed that in Mexico “there is no secret vaccination for those at the top”

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador boasted on Monday that in his country there was no “secret vaccination” of senior officials and gave as an example that a large part of his government was infected with the coronavirus, including himself. “It has not been abused, (there has not been) this whole situation that has happened in several countries that there is a secret vaccination for those above. It is very important ”, declared the president during a press conference at the National Palace.

“There is no preference for anyone. It is evident that COVID-19 has handed us over to government officials, at the highest level. To the President, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of Defense, the Under-Secretary in charge of the campaign against the coronavirus and many others ”, he illustrated. With these words López Obrador different from other countries in the region like Peru, where the so-called “Vacunagate” was discovered, a political scandal of secret vaccinations of senior officials, The Argentina, where the Minister of Health has been moved for allegedly privileged access to the vaccine by those close to power.

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The Mexican president, who took power in 2018 with the promise to end corruption, said that “it used to be influentialism” in Mexico, but now members of the government are leading “by example.” “It is a matter of waiting for us. There will be vaccines for everyone“Said the president, who recalled that for the moment the country is vaccinating adults over 60 years in the most disadvantaged municipalities.

Under Secretary of Health and government coronavirus strategist Hugo López-Gatell, 51, announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for covid-19 and was confined with “thankfully mild” symptoms. Last week, Secretary of National Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval was also infected, who joined the list of at least seven federal government ministers sick with covid-19 since the pandemic began in Mexico on February 27. 2020. President López Obrador, 67, was also ill during the last two weeks of January, hypertensive and reluctant to wear the mask in public.

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The country, with 126 million inhabitants, committed 34.4 million doses of the American Pfizer, 79.4 of the British AstraZeneca, 35 of the Chinese CanSino, 24 of the Russian Sputnik V, 10 of the Chinese Sinovac and 51, 4 of the Covax platform of the World Health Organization (WHO). With more than 180,000 deaths and more than 2 million infections, Mexico is the third country in the world with the most deaths from the pandemic, behind the United States and Brazil.