Claudia Sheinbaum’s recommendation to avoid lines for COVID-19 vaccination

Claudia Sheinbaum, Head of government in Mexico City, made a recommendation that the elderly do not queue to receive their vaccination against COVID-19. Oddly enough, the official asked them not to arrive “too early” for their appointment.

“Ask people not to arrive too early; useless. So that they arrive at the time that suits them. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the afternoon, it will be open. If there are still queues at 4:00 am or if there are people waiting, (health workers will not leave) until the vaccination is over that day ”, a- he said at a press conference.

It should be remembered that the campaign will last in town halls Iztacalco, Tláhuac and Xochimilco from February 24 to March 5. There will also be mobile brigades, focused on people in this sector who cannot move to the units.

The vaccination campaign is progressing slowly

Until this Tuesday, Mexico is ranked 19th in the world in terms of immunization progress in its population. However, the 1,733,404 doses applied in the country are a lower figure than the 126 million Mexicans.

Say of Mauricio Rodriguez Alvarez, spokesperson for the University Commission for Attention to the Coronavirus Emergency at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), one of the virtues that the country has had is to have worked on many fronts. “This doesn’t just include vaccines (which are) in the refrigerator”, told the agency EFE.

Mexico, he explained, focused on obtain vaccines directly from suppliers, through the global Covax initiative, with the production of the vaccine from the AstraZeneca laboratory, in addition to the research and production projects of a Mexican vaccine.

On December 24, 2020, Mexico received the first shipment of anti-covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and, since then, has received over 17 million doses. The last shipments arrived in the last 24 hours and came from Sputnik V, with 200,000 doses, and Pfizer, with over 500,000.

Although only 1.7 million have been applied, 3 million are ready to be applied and 14 million (between AstraZeneca and Cansino) are still being packaged in the country. Mexico has committed 34.4 million doses from US Pfizer, 79.4 from Britain’s AstraZeneca, 35 from Chinese CanSino, 24 from Russian Sputnik V, 10 from Chinese Sinovac and 51.4 from the Organization’s Covax platform World Health Organization (WHO).

Although there is an emergency in immunization and, for many, slow progress Juan Ramón de la Fuente, The Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) said that the development of immunization in Mexico can be analyzed from several angles.

“If you want to compare yourself to the 130 countries that have not started their immunization campaign, we are doing very well, but if you want to compare yourself to the ten countries that have monopolized the most vaccines, then we are at the train. He said on February 18 in an interview with EFE.

From the source asked to give the right dimension to what Mexico has done Well, “the fact that more vaccines have started to arrive in more countries is a very good sign,” he said.

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