Mexico City
Moderna’s vaccine against covid-19 is widely available in the United States, the country where it is most common; However, not so for Mexico, so it was decided to buy other vaccines that are available, he explained Jose Luis Alomía Zegarra, CEO of Epidemiology.
“Moderna has a high availability for the United States, but not for the Mexican territory. The choice has been made to bring the available and those that can be delivered in the shortest possible time to the country,” he said. the federal official in an afternoon conference to release details of the pandemic in Mexico
Alomía Zegarra indicated that the vaccines that arrived in Mexico and with which they have contracted, acquired and paid for have always been in the context of the search for available vaccines.
Let’s not forget that the National Vaccination Strategy will run until the first quarter of 2022. So as we move forward month after month, vaccines are being bought that are ready to ship or available, ”he said.
However, he did not rule out that sOver time, the availability and ability to obtain the Moderna vaccine began to become available, Mexico would consider its acquisition as its purchase to continue with its national vaccination strategy.
He indicated that the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) is currently analyzing the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is packaged in Mexico, and the doses of the CanSino vaccine.
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