It’s like used clothes: the enraged message from Pascal Beltrán del Río on vaccines received from India

Mexico received 870,000 AstraZeneca vaccines on Sunday February 14, all produced by the Serum Institute in India, according to Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who particularly thanked the support of the government of this country for the facilities granted to make it possible.

However, there were people in the public sphere who were not very satisfied with the statements of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and they launched some criticisms which rejected the arrival of drugs in the country.

One of them was journalist Pascal Beltrán Río, who assured via his official social networks that This gesture of Indian solidarity was actually similar to when your uncles send you used clothes from their children.

“How did India send us vaccines” as a sign of solidarity “? So what are we? It’s like when your aunt sends you her children’s used clothes”, wrote the communicator.

Additionally, she was supported by Xavier Tello, a health policy analyst, who deduced that more than one gift had been a rather cordial phrase.

“The worst part is that the Indian Foreign Minister said they were ‘a gift to Mexico’. Is it really a gift or was it just a cordial phrase?” responded on Twitter.

“We are members of the OECD and the G20, but it is true and it requires good governance. It is better to have mercy “, correspondent Ariel Moutsatsos seconded.

But the comment also received several opposing comments, in addition to hundreds of posts sharing the tweet as something absolutely loathsome, which Pascal ignored.

Government of Mexico received the first shipment of 870 thousand doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Mumbai, India, to continue the national COVID-19 vaccine policy.

This first tranche of AstraZeneca arrived at Mexico City’s “Benito Juárez” international airportat 3:17 a.m., represents 42 percent of just over 2 million doses that the Department of Health contracted on January 26 through Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de México, SA de CV (Birmex) with the Serum Institute of India.

This first AstraZeneca opus arrived at the “Benito Juárez” international airport in Mexico City, At 3:17 a.m., this represents 42% of just over 2 million doses that the Ministry of Health contracted on January 26 through Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de México, SA de CV, (Birmex) with the Serum Institute of India.

During the vaccine reception ceremony, Foreign Secretary (SRE) Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon stressed that Mexico was the first country in Latin America to receive COVID-19 vaccines and that with this shipment , there are already two sources of organic supply.

He thanked the Indian government, the main producer and exporter of vaccines, for the authorization to finalize the arrival of this first batch, as well as Ambassador Manpreet Vohra and the Managing Director of AstraZeneca in our country, Sylvia Varela.

It has further been reported, They have already repaired eight air routes and seven land routes to fulfill this mission of continuing the vaccination plan at the national level. About 1181 points will be affected for this to be possible, he detailed.

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