The Moderna’s updated Covid-19 vaccineapproved by the World Health Organization (WHO), began to be marketed in pharmacies in Mexico, as announced this Wednesday by its distributor.
“The vaccine is available as of Tuesday, January 16, 2024, and continues to provide an immune response against the currently circulating strains of covid-19, including JN.1,” he said in a statement. Asofarmalegal representative in Mexico of Moderna.
This biological, prepared from the latest variants of the virus, will be marketed in Mexico like the vaccine. Pfizerwhich has been available since last December, and will be applied in parallel to those supplied by the Mexican Government, the Russian Sputnik and the Cuban Ratherboth without the endorsement of the WHO.
According to the authorities, the public system is using 9 million doses of these vaccines for the reinforcement campaign 2023-2024 against covid-19, which covers some 25 million people from four risk groups: people aged 60 and over, pregnant women, people with comorbidities and health personnel.
The Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) endorsed the health registration of the Moderna vaccine on December 7 along with that of Pfizer, which allowed its commercialization in the private sector.
The Moderna vaccine, said José Miguel Fonken Quiroga, general director of Asofarma, will be distributed through a vaccination network established in Mexico that includes the public and private sectors.
Thus, it will be available in vaccination centers, medical consultantshospitals and pharmacy and can be used in people six months of age and older.
The vaccine is affordable and offers a robust immune response against dominant circulating variants.
The pharmaceutical company did not reveal the cost of the vaccine, but it could be similar to that of the Pfizer biological, which, On average, it is sold at 848 pesos.
The arrival of the Moderna biological is announced just one day after the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denied that there is a “critical situation” in the country due to the increase in cases of covid-19.
Mexico is the fifth country with the most confirmed deaths from covid-19, with more than 334,000.
2024-01-17 20:08:00
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