translated from Spanish: Mexico to formalize COVAX deal to ensure COVID vaccines: Ebrard

Mexico City.- Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in La Mañanera that Mexico could reach the conclusion of an agreement with COVAX that would allow the country to guarantee the supply of vaccines against the Covid-19.Ebrard recalled that COVAX was the result of the proposal of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, against the G20 , which was presented to the UN General Assembly to ensure unification in the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in all countries, as well as sharing information for the treatment of respiratory disease.
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The Chancellor also reported that so far there are 6 countries that have Mexico as a prospect to carry out phase 3 tests of 7 vaccines against Covid-19.Marcelo reaffirmed what was said by the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, ensuring that the pandemic has a downward trend in Mexico, and that thanks to this the health emergency will enter a new phase on Thursday. On the other hand, it disclosed that all Mexican consulates in the United States are already offering services to connationals, in addition to being conducting free trials of suspects by Covid-19.The tests have been conducted on:
Los Angeles
San Jose
Indianapolis
Houston 
New York
San Diego
Sacramento
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Chicago

Finally, he said that so far, the “Health Window”, a program of consulates to serve Mexicans, has served more than 2 million connationals remotely and more than 500 thousand directly at the consulate facilities.

Original source in Spanish