Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Mexico has become the country in Latin America that has applied the greatest number of vaccines against COVID-19, since, until this Monday, January 4, nearly 40 thousand health workers had been immunized and received their first dose against the virus.
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, highlighted in his first morning conference this 2021 that of the more than 39,000 people who have received the first dose of the vaccine, only one had strong reactions, a situation that has already been reported to the Pfizer laboratory, while the doctor is already being attended to.
"We have already vaccinated 39,000 people, almost 40,000, and what we have in stock is more than 70 percent of the vaccines already applied," said the president.
He added that "fortunately we haven't had any major problems, just a reaction from a doctor who had a problem with the application of the vaccine, she is being treated. It is a special case for an allergy according to what the doctors maintain, she is already being treated, hospitalized, Pfizer knows, the case is being treated, but it is only one, of about 40 thousand".
Likewise, López Obrador pointed out that "In Latin America, it is the first place in application, although we are still starting, but in total - 12 million doses have been vaccinated in the world in application".
In that regard, he noted that China ranks first in immunizations, followed by the United States, Israel, Russia and England.
This morning Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcel Ebrard Casaubón reported that the country received 53,525 doses of the vaccine for COVID-19.
Next week it will be over four hundred thousand. Good news for Mexico. Thanks to Pfizer BioNTech and DHL," he wrote on his Twitter account, where he added that a flight with a load of the immunizations will also arrive in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
It should be noted that, so far, Argentina has supplied 32,013 doses, Chile 8,648, and Costa 2,455.
According to Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell, Mexico was one of the first 10 countries to supply the SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccine in the world, and the first in Latin America.
"We are currently number 13 in terms of vaccination per million inhabitants, we are the first in Latin America," he said at a press conference.
