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Nuevo León will receive 500,000 vaccines from Texas for children under 15 years of age

The governor Samuel Garcia Sepulveda stated that in three months New Lion will set the example for all of Mexico of how to do things right, since it will be the first state in the country to have vaccinated against Covid-19 to its entire population from the age of five, thanks to the fact that it obtained 500,000 vaccines from the Texas authorities Pfizer for children under 15 years.

This was achieved, said the state president, by prioritizing immediately after he won the elections on June 6, the realization of a great alliance on economic and health issues with his neighboring state to the north, together with being the regional engine of the South of U.S and northeastern Mexico, constituting between them the fourth largest economy in the world.

He stated that while other governors-elect “save” the three or four months after his victory, he went to work and made a tour to Laredo and later another to San Antonio and Austin, establishing two representative or liaison offices in the first and third Texas cities, achieving on Saturday by the representation in Austin the agreement for the donation of the 500 thousand vaccines.

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“For those who doubted and criticized: the traveling governor who spends his time in Texas, there are the results of this strategic alliance in health and economic issues,” said the state president.

He explained that these doses will be to vaccinate all children from five to 14 years of age (because the federal government began the immunization of those under 15 to 17 years of age), with which Nuevo León will be the first state in the country to vaccinate its entire population is a candidate for the antigen, already having the highest levels of vaccination with 91 percent of those over 18 years of age with at least one dose, 81 percent with two doses, and 67 percent of those under 15 to 17 years of age already 67 percent with double dose.

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