•STANDSTILL: Mexico is hoping that coronavirus vaccine deliveries will resume this week with the expected arrival of the first load of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India. Delays in vaccine deliveries have brought the country’s vaccination effort close to a standstill: less than 1 percent of Mexicans have received a vaccine dose.
•NUMBERS: As of late Sunday, a total of 766,350 doses have arrived in Mexico and 713, 517 vaccinations have been reported since December 24. The country has officially reported 1 million 932,145 cases and 166,200 deaths, the third highest death toll in the world.
•EXPECTATION: “It’s very likely that before the end of the week about a million doses of AstraZeneca will arrive from India. (Our diplomats) are doing the paperwork”, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said today. He had mentioned last month that 870,00 doses would arrive from India.
•REPERTOIRE: Despite having authorized other vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech’s remains the only coronavirus vaccine available in Mexico but a revamp of the company’s facilities in Belgium has delayed deliveries. The last load of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in Mexico on January 19.
