•VACCINATION: Mexico’s coronavirus vaccination effort slowed to a grind this week, with health authorities reporting only 220 people vaccinated on Wednesday. However, the government hopes that the arrival of new doses beginning Sunday will put its vaccination plan back on track.
•HOPES: After granting emergency authorization to China’s CanSino and Sinovac coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, Mexico is putting its hopes on the expected arrival of the first load of 500,000 AstraZeneca vaccines on Sunday and of a new delivery of Pfizer/BioNtech’s next week.
•CHINA: “The authorization of the CanSino and Sinovac vaccines will allow these vaccines to arrive in Mexico soon. The first two million CanSino will arrive tomorrow for filling and packaging in the Drugmex (plant) in Querétaro”, undersecretary of health Hugo López-Gatell tweeted Wednesday.
•NUMBERS: Despite the recent authorization of the Chinese vaccines and Russia’s Sputnik V, the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine is still the only one being used in Mexico. As of late Wednesday, Mexico had applied 724,707 doses. The total number of doses that have arrived in Mexico is 766,350.
