CDMX.- Mexico’s Secretary of Health Jorge Alcocer Varela said that the first to be vaccinated against covid-19 will be the unprotected sectors of society, such as health personnel, those over the age of sixty, and the military. In an interview with El Universal outside the National Palace, the official explained that the militia will be vaccinated as an important area for the federal government.
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The top national health leader added that although Pfizer’s drug needs to be maintained at least -70 degrees Celsius, the authorities are already looking at the specialized distribution points in ultra high freezing.
During the questions, Alcocer Varela detailed that the general population will be vaccinated after the aforementioned sectors, although he said that tomorrow Tuesday, December 8, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will present the vaccination plan against Covid-19.
This event will include minors on how the vaccine will be injected into the population, as well as abounding in transport and distribution issues. For his part, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, during the daily conference on coronavirus, avoided talking about the vaccine of the pharmaceutical company originating in the United States.Although when questioned about the possibility of re-contracting the virus, the popular official said: “Who already had covid possibly already protected”, words that did not fall very well in some citizens , as it could increase the neglect of those who consider them to be a fact.
Possibly those who have already had covid-19 in an asymptomatic, mild symptomatic or even severe symptomatic form may have already been protected or protected,” he said.
Mexico has so far recorded a total of 110 thousand 74 killed by coronavirus, one million 182 thousand 249 infected and 873 thousand 555 recovered from the infectious disease, according to information provided on the afternoon of Monday, December 7 by the ministry of health.
