Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Mexico has become the Latin American country that has applied the largest number of vaccines against COVID-19, since, only until this Monday, January 4, had been immunized about 40 thousand health workers, who received their first dose against the virus.
The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said in his first morning conference of this 2021 that of the more than 39 thousand people who have received the first dose of the vaccine, only one presented strong reactions, a situation that has already been reported to the laboratory Pfizer, while the doctor is already being treated.
"We already have 39,000, almost 40,000 people vaccinated, and what we have in stock is already over 70 percent of the vaccines applied," said the president.
He added that "fortunately we have had no major problems, only reaction of a doctor who had a problem with the application of the vaccine, she is being treated. It is a special case due to an allergy according to what the doctors say, is already being treated, hospitalized, Pfizer knows, the case is being treated, but it is only one of about 40 thousand.
Likewise, Lopez Obrador pointed out that "In Latin America, is the first place in application, although we are still starting, but in total ?have been vaccinated to ? 12 million doses 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 more than 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 will also arrive with a load of immunizations to 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 Mexico's undersecretary of health, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, Mexico was among the first 10 countries in the world to provide the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, 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.
