Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced on Wednesday night that Mexico agreed to purchase 35 million vaccines against COVID-19 from China CanSino.
On his Twitter account, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs celebrated the pre-purchase agreement for 35 million doses of vaccines signed this Wednesday.
Congratulations to Dr Jorge Alcocer, Secretary of Health, Xuefeng Yu, President of CanSino Biologics Inc. and Jerome Piguet of LATAM PHARMA for the pre-purchase agreement of 35 million doses of vaccines signed today. More options for Mexico. pic.twitter.com/MiIilW9IeT
– Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) December 10, 2020
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On November 24, Ebrard said that the CanSino Biologics vaccine will be packaged in Mexico. “The vaccine, once it has an emergency authorization, would be sent to Mexico for final filling and packaging,” he said.
The CanSino vaccine has been applied to 62 volunteers during Phase Three of the clinical trial that the company conducts in Nuevo León. So far, no volunteer has suffered adverse effects after the application of the vaccine.
The Ministry of Health expects that 250 thousand doses of the vaccine created between Pfizer and BioNTech arrive in Mexico in this same month, while, according to Ebrard, another 15 million doses would be sent to our country during the first four months of 2021.
On Tuesday, the federal government presented the first details of the National Vaccination Plan against COVID-19 in Mexico, in which medical personnel fighting the pandemic and the elderly will have priority to receive the dose.
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