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COVAX to Send Mexico 10 Million Covid Vaccines after Threat of Lawsuit

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By MARK LORENZANA The Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) will send 10 million Pfizer doses for children to Mexico, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) threatened to file a lawsuit against the United Nations-backed alliance, which owes the country $75 million worth of vaccines. According to Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell, speaking at López Obrador’s daily press

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Mexico Will Begin Vaccinating Minors in May, If Vaccines Arrive

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, April 13, that his administration will begin vaccinating children against covid-19 starting in May, as long as Mexico receives the needed vaccines from the Covax (United Nations Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility) mechanism. “We have paid in advance for a batch of vaccines from the

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AMLO Promises Elderly Inoculation by April, New Covax Shipments

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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), during his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, March 2, promised that all Mexicans over the age of 60, or around 15 million of the country’s 130 million people, would be vaccinated by the end of April, following the reception of vaccines from Covax later this month. AMLO’s

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Mexico Begins Covid Vaccinations for Elderly

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico has started the process of vaccinating its vulnerable elderly population against covid-19, with all Mexican inhabitants above the age of 60 theoretically available to receive the vaccine as of Tuesday, Feb. 2.  The new phase began the same day that the esteemed international medical journal The Lancet published a peer-reviewed analysis of trials of the Russian

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