Mexico Stocks Up With COVID-19 Vaccines

Aljazeera reported on February 13, 2021, Mexico had received enough ingredients to produce two million doses of CanSinoBio's Convidicea vaccine. A day earlier, Mexico gave emergency approval for another Chinese vaccine, the Sinovac BBIBP-CorV COVID-19 vaccine.

Mexico is also expecting delivery of 870,000 doses of the CoviShield - AstraZeneca vaccine produced in India.

Mexico has an agreement with AstraZeneca to produce vaccines for the eventual distribution of 250 million doses in Latin America, with financial support from Mexican Carlos Slim's foundation.

“The (COVID-19) vaccines are already available … and they will not stop arriving so that the national vaccination plan does not stop,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at the news conference.