By MARK LORENZANA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the acquisition of the bivalent vaccine booster produced by Pfizer-BioNTech against the Omicron variant, as well as the original strain, of the covid-19 virus. Medical experts in Mexico, however, are not too optimistic about the shots arriving in the country anytime soon. “At least in the short term,
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies from three Mexican political parties — the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) — are set to file an official complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for the expiry and wastage of more than 5 million covid-19 vaccines. On Saturday, Sept. 25, Mexican daily
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, on Saturday, Sept. 25, reported that 5.4 million covid-19 vaccines had expired in Mexico and are set to be thrown away. Of the total wasted vaccines, 3.4 million are of the AstraZeneca brand, donated by the U.S. government, and stored in a warehouse of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) in Cuautitlán Izcalli, in
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