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These doses will be administered to the elderly people living in Iztacalco, Tlahuac, and Xochimilco.
Mexico on Monday night received the first batch of 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine on a British Airways flight from Moscow.
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The shipment arrived a few days after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) signed a contract with Moscow for the delivery of 24 million doses of the vaccine.
As of February 24, the first 200 thousand doses will be administered to the elderly people living in Iztacalco, Tlahuac, and Xochimilco, which are urban communities that have had high mortality from COVID-19.
"We thank Russia for sending the first batch that will allow us to immunize people vulnerable to the disease," Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said, adding that the rest of the doses will arrive in the country gradually in the coming weeks.
COVID 19 update : 22nd February 2021
— Mawangwa Ibrahim (@mawangwa) February 22, 2021
By today 8pm, USA was on top of the Corona Virus graph with 28,776,06 cases arising from +10,620 new cases , Russia with +12,604, India with +10,705 new cases.
New Deaths
Russia +337
USA +320
Mexico +310
Italy +274 pic.twitter.com/sFlHyfGHVS
The Sputnik V vaccine, which is 91.8 percent effective, costs US$9.90 per dose. According to authorities, Mexico paid for the 24 million doses agreed with Russia.
"This is not a donation. However, we thank President Vladimir Putin for guaranteeing the shipment of Sputnik V amid its high global demand," Ebrard said, noting that the Russian immunizer is one of the best in the world.
On February 17, the Health Ministry reported it had received the invoice for the purchase of 24 million doses of the Sputnik V, which is already being used in Latin America by Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
#Mexico | Criminal groups are using the #COVID19 crisis to further shift power away from the state. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/GIIC5J6aMD
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) April 21, 2020
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