Mexico City.- The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorreported that the Ministry of Health is already preparing the national plan for vaccusation against Covid-19 for boys and girls in all the country.
It will be through the Covax organization that Mexico acquires the necessary vaccines for its use in minorsTherefore, the vaccines that are stored in the country are not suitable for inoculating boys and girls, AMLO reported.
Likewise, he announced that these new doses are already paid for, because the Government of Mexico paid in advance for vaccines to the mechanism Covax of the United Nations Organization, which have not yet been delivered.
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“We are requesting that they send us vaccines for the children, because these vaccines that we have cannot be used or if they are not of some authorized brands, (…) they owe us (it) because we paid in advance,” said the federal president.
However the President Andres Manuel did not specify a date for the start of the vaccination of children under 14 years of agehaving as a tentative date a bird completes the booster vaccination at over 18 years of age.
Will be vaccinated with Pfizer
The vaccine Pfizer for children under five years of age was authorized since the end of March by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris).
However, so far it only applies to 15 year old teenagers and in children under 12 years of age with conditions such as heart, lung or neurological conditions.
The president affirmed that in the remainder of the month the booster vaccine will continue to be applied to adults who are still missing enough Mexicans to be vaccinated.
“We have enough vaccines, and we are going to apply booster vaccines because there are still many Mexicans, women and men who do not have the booster vaccine, so all of us, state governments, municipal governments, we are all going to intensify the vaccination campaign, already yesterday we managed to again raise the number of vaccines applied”, he said.
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Lopez Obrador made the commitment to conclude the vaccination campaign for adults and added that “there will be vaccines in health centers and hospitals for those who voluntarily attend, but the national vaccination plan concludes this month,” he stressed.
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