COVID-19 vaccine vials being made ready for delivery at a vaccination centre in Mexico
By September 25, 2021, Mexico had administered a total of 97,523,789 doses (74.87 vaccine doses per 100 people), with 54,275,054 residents having received at least one dose and 43,248,659 residents fully vaccinated.[1] Mexico has purchased 310.8 million vaccines doses which covers 141.2% of its population.[2]
Wealthy Mexicans were reported to travel to the neighbouring United States for receiving their vaccinations.[3] In March, the White House announced that four million of doses of COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in the United States will be sent to Mexico.[4][5]
In a survey conducted in March 2021, 52% of the Mexicans said that they were willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, 20% said they were not sure and 28% said they would not get vaccinated.[6]
On 20 April 2021, President López Obrador televised himself receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.[7][8]
National vaccination plan
The National vaccination plan against COVID-19 has been planned as below in Mexico:[9]
December 2020 - February 2021 : Health workers dealing with COVID-19
February - April 2021 : Other health workers and people 60+ years of age
April - May 2021 : People 50-59 years old
May - June 2021 : People 40-49 years old
June 2021 - March 2022 : People 18-39 years old
November 2021 - April 2022 : People 15-17 years old [10]
December 2021 - May 2022 : People 12-14 years old
June 2022 - October 2022 : People 5-11 years old and vaccine stragglers [11] (children under 5 are exempted from vaccination)
NOT UPDATED SINCE APRIL 2021 - Mexico has contracted 79.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, 35 million doses of the CureVac vaccine, 22 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 39 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, 10 million doses of the Novavax vaccine, 34.4 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, 24 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, 35 million doses of Convidecia, 12 million doses of the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine and 20 million doses of CoronaVac.[2] 3,305,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine have been delivered through the COVAX mechanism,[13] a global initiative that aims at equitable distribution for Covid-19 vaccines. Moreover, the United States have sent 2.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to Mexico.[14]
The following vaccines are authorized by the Mexican government for use against COVID-19 (approval date in parentheses):[9]
Manufacture and distribution of vaccines in Mexico
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, released the details of the agreement between the government of Mexico, Argentina, the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the Carlos SlimFoundation to produce and distribute the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford.[18]
The strategy to distribute the vaccine in Latin America, the product manufactured in the Argentine mAbxience laboratory, will be transferred to the Mexican facilities of the Liomont laboratory, which will be in charge of completing the stabilization, manufacturing and packaging process of the vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccine from the pharmaceuticalcompanyCanSino Biologics will be packaged in Querétaro, after the company requested from COFEPRIS, authorization for its emergency use of its vaccine.[19]
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