Lopez Obrador says Mexico will start Covid-19 vaccination on Thursday

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23 December 2020

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Mexico, Dec 23 (Prensa Latina) Mexico will begin the Covid-19 vaccinations on Thursday, although it is only the first shipment of an initial batch of over one million doses, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Wednesday.

The president said at his morning press briefing at the National Palace that the agreement with political and health authorities is that the armed forces will protect the vaccines.

He stated that it is a process to trial that scientists call calibration, and vaccination will begin with health workers in Covid-19 hospitals, such as doctors, nurses, technicians, stretcher-bearers and others.

Mexico has signed an agreement to purchase 34.4 million doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine that will be administered in two doses. The first batch of over one million doses arrived here on Tuesday.

The remaining doses are expected to arrive by the end of January and they will be used quickly because the vaccine needs to be stored at -70 degrees Celsius.