Teachers and over 50s, the following at the stage of COVID-19 vaccination: AMLO

This Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that, after all the elderly have been vaccinated, The following groups in the phase of immunization against COVID-19, will be educators and Mexicans aged 50 to 59.

During his morning lecture in the Treasury Room of the National Palace, López Obrador stressed that vaccination is universal and free, and clarified that while the next to be vaccinated are teachers, both from the public and private sectors, it is is because “Want” to come back to face-to-face lessons.

“Most important of all is to save lives … by finishing vaccinating the elderly, from the 15th to the 20th of this month, all education workers will be vaccinated with the single dose of Cansino.” The application of the vaccine, in parallel, in the population aged 50 to 59 years. If the offer is not lacking … and ending with this sector we go from 40 to 50 ″, detailed

“(…) Now, it is a universal, ordered and free vaccination. Of course, we will hurry because if we are going to start soon with the teachers and here I also specify that we must have the teachers vaccinated because the return to class is urgent. We cannot leave children helpless or bombarded day and night with electronic devices, the content of which is geared towards individualism and violence. In addition, the school is socialized, it is the second house, so we must already go back to face-to-face lessons and hurry so that we are all (vaccinated) “, he stressed.

The president underlined that the supply of vaccines is guaranteed, while noting that two Mexican companies package biological products of AstraZeneca Yes CanSino, which will speed up the arrangement of doses.

“So far we have guaranteed the supply, this has been achieved, but it was not nothing, that in this short period of time it has been realized that two factories are packaging vaccines in Mexico (AstraZeneca Yes CanSino) because we are going to use the vaccine CanSino for teachers because it’s a single dose, because we produce it here. We already have a delivery schedule for this vaccine, these 3 million doses will start to be delivered to us from the 17th of this month (April) and we will have just over 3 million (doses) by the 9th. . of May “, reported.

During his conference, López Obrador made a link with Mexico City International Airport (AICM) with the director of Birmex, Pedro Zenteno Santaella, who received a new batch of 327,600 vaccines from Pfizer-BiontechTherefore, the President affirmed that with this shipment, the second application of the organic to all the elderly is ensured.

“We already have the vaccines to complete the protection of all the elderly. In other words, with this shipment arriving, it is already around the 20th of this month (April) to conclude with the vaccination of the elderly with a single dose, but now everyone ”, he assured.

López Obrador admitted that some older people were hesitant to get the vaccine because they were suspicious, he said: he will be vaccinated at the National Palace, to set an example. However, he did not give an exact date.

“There is a percentage (of older adults) who did not want to be vaccinated. What’s happening? This is because of misinformation or their beliefs, because no one can be forced (…) sometimes the children convince them (to be vaccinated), or they have already realized that they had vaccinated their neighbor or friend and had no problems, so for the second injection, those who didn’t on the first dose arrive. So we hope that this will also happen, that when the second (application) is sent to those who did not come for some reason, they can attend. And give them more security ”, He said.

“That’s why I’m going to get vaccinated here (at the National Palace) to tell my veteran colleagues that there is no problem. We’ll see, next week or… let’s see, but just for you to have confidence… Yes, we should get the vaccine, it protects the vaccine, it helps. So that we can enjoy it and not remain unvaccinated elderly, it ended on April 20, with this shipment we have already finished having all the vaccines. The Ministry of Defense (Sedena) is distributing today and tomorrow and is already going to the scene, but we already have vaccines on site. We think that we will not stop putting in about 500 thousand a day, but we must already conclude “, he assured.

He reiterated that with the shipment of Pfizer biologics that arrived this morning, it guarantees the vaccination of all the elderly and will allow the vaccination of teachers and the population between the ages of 50 and 59 to begin.

“This shipment already allows us to make sure that the second doses will be on time and it will allow us to have the 20 (April), at least with one dose to all older adults and on those days we start among teachers as agreed to try to finish before May 15 with all the teachers, and at the same time, we start with the population between 50 and 59 years old, that is to say about 13 million ”, he concluded.

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