On Tuesday morning, the first shipment with one million 750 thousand doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived in Mexico. This is the first delivery of the donation by the U.S. government to the country.
The cargo landed at Toluca International Airport in the State of Mexico from Memphis, Tennessee.
?Mexico receives shipment of 1.75 million doses of Moderna vaccine, thanks to cooperation with the U.S. https://t.co/XQIgWhZBF6 pic.twitter.com/ladgQG4HY8
— Foreign Relations (@SRE_mx) August 24, 2021
Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de México S. A. de C.V., (Birmex), will be the entity responsible for the import of these biologics, which were donated to strengthen the vaccination strategy, Mexican authorities explained.
In this regard: On June 29, 10 municipalities of Edomex begin vaccination of people between 40 and 49 years old
Through social networks, the entity reported that the newly arrived vaccines will be applied to people from 18 to 29 years old in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, Jalisco and Nuevo León.
i️? THERE ARE ALREADY 7 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN MEXICO TO FIGHT SARS-CoV-2 VIRUSES!
The doses of #Moderna will be applied to people from 18 to 29 years old in the metropolitan area of mexico City, Jalisco and Nuevo León. In total today ?? gets 95 million 742 thousand 915 ?#BirmexAlMomento. pic.twitter.com/od9tWKpLuf
— Birmex (@Birmex) August 24, 2021
Likewise, in a press conference, the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that “it would not be up to Mexico City,” but to the State of Mexico and other conurbated areas.
On August 10, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced that the United States would send 3.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Mexico, as a result of talks between President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Recently, Ebrard reported that 1.7 million doses of the U.S. pharmaceutical company’s COVID-19 vaccine would be shipped first and that the second shipment of the biologic would arrive in September to complete the agreed total.
On August 18, the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) authorized the Moderna vaccine for emergency use.
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Two days earlier, experts on the New Molecules Committee (CMN) unanimously gave a favorable opinion to the vaccine.
Moderna is the eighth vaccine against COVID-19 approved for emergency use by Mexico’s health authorities.
In November last year, the US laboratory Moderna announced that its vaccine against COVID-19 had an efficacy of 94.5% to reduce the risk of contracting the disease.
Arrival of more pfizer doses
In turn, the government of Mexico announced the arrival of 236,340 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, from Cincinnati, United States.
This shipment, added to the previous deliveries, gives a result of 28 million 015 thousand 845 packaged doses of this laboratory.
Also: To ‘expedite vaccination’ in Mexico, US will donate 8.5 million doses of Moderna and AstraZeneca
In sum, this August 24, Mexico received one million 986 thousand 340 doses of packaged vaccines, of which one million 750 thousand were from the Moderna laboratory and 236 thousand 340 from Pfizer-BioNTech.
The government of Mexico reported that it has received 73 million 40 thousand 645 doses of packaged vaccines, distributed among Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamaleya, CanSino Biologics, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
Read more: US gives full approval to Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19
As for the Mexican territory, the Drugmex laboratory has packaged six million 348 thousand 310 doses of CanSino Biologics, and the Liomont laboratory another 16 million 590 thousand 300 biologicals of AstraZeneca, which adds up to 22 million 938 thousand 610 vaccines packaged in the country.
In total, Mexico has had available 95 million 979 thousand 255 doses of vaccines.
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