The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) clarified on Wednesday afternoon, citing the US Government, “that neither the entry of travelers to its territory nor the possible reopening of the common border are conditioned on the use of specific types of vaccine.”
This, hours after The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, mentioned at the morning conference that the United States denied passage to those who were not vaccinated with doses of Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson.
“In the United States, and of course I do not agree with that, those who are not vaccinated by these pharmaceutical companies or with these vaccines are denied entry or not accepted,” the federal president said, when asked why no progress had been made with vaccination in the border city of Juarez.
“So, we don’t do anything if we vaccinate with CanSino, with AstraZeneca at the border, because they’re going to tell us that the border isn’t opened for that purpose, so we’re vaccinating with Pfizer.”
The U.S. government has clarified that neither the entry of travelers into its territory nor the eventual reopening of the common border are conditioned on the use of specific types of vaccine.
— Foreign Relations (@SRE_mx) July 7, 2021
Following the president’s remarks at the conference, the official sites of the CDC, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico and the Homeland Security department were reviewed, but no statement was found that spoke of a restriction focused on certain vaccines.
Even the U.S. Embassy’s COVID-19 page explains to U.S. citizens residing in Mexico how they can get the vaccine, and lists the vaccines available in Mexican territory.
In recent weeks, different speculations have circulated on social networks that the United States would not allow people with doses of the Chinese vaccine CanSino or the Russian Sputnik to enter its territory, since they are not approved by that country.
However, as was also noted in this hound verification, this restriction has not been confirmed. And now the Foreign Ministry has also clarified the president’s remarks.
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