• REQUEST: Mexico said today that it is expecting that the Biden administration will give a final answer Friday on whether the country could access the US stockpile of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Previously, Canada and the European Union presented the US with the same request.
• PURCHASE: Originally, Mexico reached a deal last year with AstraZeneca to purchase 77.4 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine. The vaccine is being bottled in Mexico but actual deliveries are expected to begin in April. In the meantime, Mexico requested the US for a ‘vaccine loan’.
• FRIDAY: “We requested (the US) for as many (AstraZeneca doses) as possible and we will have the answer on Friday”, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday. The White House has said previously that its current priority is the vaccination of US residents.
• NUMBERS: As of late Monday, Mexican officials reported that the total amount of vaccine doses administered in Mexico was 4 million 404,608. The country has received a total of 6 million 429,375 vaccine doses, of which 870,000 are from AstraZeneca originally sent from India.
