- They arrived at the international airports of Mexico City and Monterrey, Nuevo León, from Belgium
- These are two shipments with 42,900 doses
- Its application will take place on December 28 in Mexico City and in the state of Coahuila
This Saturday, December 26, two more shipments of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus arrived, with a total of 42,900 doses processed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer-BioNTech, at the international airports “Benito Juárez” in Mexico City and “Mariano Escobedo” from Monterrey, Nuevo León.
At 8:34 a.m., the plane with one of the two shipments landed at Mexico City’s “Benito Juárez” International Airport, while at 9:20 a.m. it arrived at the “Mariano Escobedo” International Airport in Monterrey, Nuevo León Flight W8 922, which transported another of the two vaccine shipments.
The application of the vaccine will be carried out on December 28 at different points in Mexico City and the state of Coahuila to personnel who are on the first line of care for COVID-19 patients.
During the reception ceremony at the “Benito Juárez” International Airport in Mexico City, the general director of the National Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Censia) of the Ministry of Health, Miriam Veras Godoy, reported that Of the 42,900 doses received, 34,125 are destined for Mexico City and 8,775 for the state of Coahuila.
With these new shipments, today continues a milestone in public health to protect the Mexican population, such as the vaccination that began on December 24. “The application of this vaccine will be carried out in a phased manner and as more doses arrive in our country, all people will be immunized,” he added.
The general director of Censia specified that this intervention, important for public health, must be accompanied by preventive sanitary measures, such as frequent hand washing, correct use of face masks and healthy distance.
At the time, the general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, pointed out that after the start of vaccination against COVID-19 and the arrival of these doses, the institute has the purpose of identifying health personnel who will be immunized, which is the target population in the first stage.
“It is strategic to protect those who have protected us and continue to protect us throughout this year. That is why we are so glad that the Social Security health personnel are together with all the other institutions in this first stage, in the proportion that corresponds to what has been treated in the almost a thousand hospitals that treat COVID, “he said.
Zoé Robledo specified that among the personnel who are selected from the COVID Response Teams, various categories are contemplated, among them, doctors, doctors, nurses, nurses, inhalotherapists, food technicians, laboratory workers, chemists, ambulance drivers, orderlies and medical assistants.
Accompanying the arrival of the 42,900 vaccines from the Pfizer plant in Puurs, Belgium, the head of Social Security said that the entire federal government has worked together to achieve the universality of vaccination against COVID-19, by linking good deeds like Operation Chapultepec.
The Ministries of Health, Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) and Foreign Relations (SRE) have complied with the presidential instruction to bring the vaccine to Mexico in an early and timely manner, said the general director of Social Communication of the SRE , Daniel Millán Valencia, on behalf of Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon.
The vaccination will be universal and free to all people progressively, depending on the production and delivery by the pharmaceutical companies, after the first stage is completed in which it will be applied to health personnel.
The directors of Medical Benefits, Víctor Hugo Borja Aburto, and of Institutional Linkage and Evaluation of Delegations, David Razú Aznar, both from IMSS attended the reception of the vaccines in Mexico City.
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