Mexico City. This week, 1.5 million Sputnik V vaccines against Covid-19 arrived in the country, which were purchased from the company Human Vaccine and will be applied during the 2023-2024 National Winter Vaccination Campaign, which began on October 16 and will conclude on October 31. next March, reported the Ministry of Health.
In a statement, he explained that last Thursday an Emirates airline flight arrived at Felipe Ángeles International Airport with 600,000 doses; On Friday another shipment arrived with 600 thousand and this Sunday another 360 thousand.
He assured that personnel from the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex), the National Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Censia) and the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks participated in the arrival, transfer and safety of the biologicals. (Cofepris), who in February 2021 issued authorization for the emergency use of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by the Russian National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Camaleya.
The Ministry of Health said that with this type of actions, Mexico complies with the recommendations of the World (WHO) and Pan American (PAHO) Health Organizations on including the Covid-19 vaccine in the seasonal campaign.
The agency invited people at higher risk of presenting severe symptoms of the disease to be immunized, which includes people over 60 years of age, pregnant women, those with comorbidities, and health care personnel.
2023-11-12 19:42:00
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