translated from Spanish: Mexico to call on UN for inequity of access to vaccines in AL

Mexico will report to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday the inequity for access to COVID-19 vaccines in Latin American and Caribbean countries in front of the producing nations, Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard reported on Tuesday.
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“We are going to present to the Security Council the position of Mexico and Latin America (…) regarding what is happening in the world, inequality, inequity in vaccine access, how countries that produce vaccines have very high vaccination rates, and Latin America and the Caribbean are much lower,” Ebrard said at a press conference.
He detailed that the claim will be raised at the instruction of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who believes that the distribution of the drug among nations “is not fair”.
The representative explained, meanwhile, that vaccines such as those developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech are imported from Europe even though they are also produced in the United States that. The country, he said, reserves for itself all the production that is made in its territory.
“These are the things we want to see at the UN so that there is equity, so that there is no hoarding in vaccines, that there is a principle of equality so that all countries have the possibility of vaccinating their inhabitants,” López Obrador added.
In early February, the Catholic organization Caritas called on the UN Security Council to ensure access to the anti-vid vaccine to all countries, particularly the poorest in Latin America, Africa and Asia, pointing to a “kind of protectionism” of rich countries in the Global North against those in the South.
Last January 18, the Mexican government accepted a reduction in the pace of delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by following a UN call to share doses with poor nations.
A day after the announcement, Mexico received half of the planned shipment and then experienced a nearly one-month drought in the supply of vaccines, which resumed just last Sunday with the arrival of 870,000 doses from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory AstraZeneca produced in India.
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Following the interruption of the abasto, Mexico resumed its vaccination plan on Monday inoculating people over the age of 60.
With 174,657 deaths, Mexico – out of 126 million inhabitants – is the third most finished country in the world by the pandemic in absolute numbers after the United States and Brazil.
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Original source in Spanish