Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to ask US President Joe Biden to share some of the Covid-19 vaccine supply Monday, according to a Mexican government official briefed on plans for the talk.
The two leaders will hold a virtual bilateral meeting on Monday.
What the partnership might look like – a purchase agreement, donation or loan – has not been defined, the official told CNN.
The first step is to ask if the United States is willing to cooperate, the source said.
Mexico has concluded purchase agreements for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses from various vaccine manufacturers around the world, the vast majority of which have yet to be fulfilled.
It has also purchased vaccines from both Russia and China, but has not received any vaccines directly from the US, its main ally and trading partner.
Pfizer, a US company, has shipped Covid-19 vaccines to Mexico, but they were produced in European laboratories and arrived in relatively limited supply.
Mexico reported on Sunday evening to have administered just under 2.5 million doses of coronavirus vaccines.