With the Johnson & Johnson vaccines that the U.S. government will send to Mexico, people between the ages of 18 and 40 from border municipalities will be immunized.
Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the goal is to reopen economic activities between Mexico and the United States.
“The purpose is that by the end of June we will have this population covered and we can agree that all or almost all activities at the border will be reopened,” he said this morning during the morning conference.
The official explained that vaccination in the border area will be for 2 million 947,733 citizens of about 40 municipalities in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
The vaccines needed will be compared with a pharmaceutical company or through some other agreement with the United States, he said.
Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine only needs one dose, its effectiveness in preventing serious illness from COVID-19 is 85% and does not require deep freezing.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for a similar vaccination program in Quintana Roo, Nayarit, Jalisco, in the tourist cities.
Yesterday, the president announced that Mexico will receive one million vaccines against COVID from the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, from the United States.
The United States announced Thursday that it will donate 80 million doses of anti-covid vaccines to be distributed globally, 75% of which will be distributed by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Covax program in regions such as Latin America.
For doses shared through Covax, the Biden administration said it will prioritize countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as South and Southeast Asia and Africa.
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