Published:
20 abr 2021 14:18 GMT
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“There is no risk, no danger, there are no serious reactions,” said the Mexican president before applying the drug.
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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, applied the vaccine against covid-19 developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford during the morning press conference on Tuesday.
“I make a call to older adults so that we all get vaccinated. The vaccine does not hurt,” he said.
Moments before receiving the vaccine, the Mexican president indicated that the drug was applied in front of the cameras to call on older adults to get vaccinated.
“We are sure that there is no risk, no danger, that there are no serious reactions, that we are following up on all the studies that are being done in the world to guarantee people’s safety, “he said.
The president’s immunization comes two weeks after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) affirm that it had found a “possible link” of this vaccine with “very rare” side effects of blood clotting, although the health authority concluded that the benefits of its administration far outweigh the risks.
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So far, Mexico has supplied 14.5 million doses of different vaccines against covid-19 to the population.
Slight increase in infections
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health of Mexico reported on Monday that in 10 states of the country there has been an increase in the number of infections.
These 10 states are: Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Colima, Durango, State of Mexico, Morelos, Nayarit, Quintana Roo and Tlaxcala.
The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, the main person in charge of the Mexican strategy against covid-19, declared that it is a “warning call”, before a possible third wave of contagions, but that it is not “a precipitous increase”.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Mexico has accumulated more than 2.3 million infections and 212,466 confirmed deaths.
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