Mexico’s Secretariat of Health said in a statement it had distributed more than 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccines out of 15.5 million doses purchased from various manufacturers.
A full two-dose vaccination scheme has covered 1.47 million people, 760,000, elderly people, 693,000 are doctors. Another 7.34 million people have received one dose of the vaccine so far.
The immunization program for the Mexican population began at the end of December 2020 with the staff of coronavirus hospitals. For these purposes, the authorities use five different vaccines, which are purchased abroad or produced locally, receiving the active component from biolaboratories – Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Cansino and Sputnik V.