At this morning's press conference led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard gave an update on the supply of COVID-19 vaccines in Mexico.  He said that 6.4 million additional ready-to-use doses are expected to arrive before the end of the month,  and he reported on Mexico's global ranking according to the number of doses administered.  

The Foreign Secretary listed the total number of doses of the various vaccines that Mexico has used for its National Vaccination Plan: Pfizer-BioNTech, 6,971,250 doses; Sinovac, 4 million doses; AstraZeneca, 3,589,300 doses; CanSino Biologics, 1,440,300 doses; and Sputnik V, 900,000 doses. As of April 12, the total came to 16,900,850 ready-to-use doses.  

In addition, the Secretary said that, from April 6-12, Mexico has received or fill-finished 1,737,430 doses of COVID-19 vaccines.  Between April 13-19, a total of 1,316,075 doses of the Pfizer and Sinovac vaccines are expected to arrive, in addition to 1,020,000 bulk doses of the CanSinoBio vaccine to be fill-finished in Mexican laboratories.

Regarding the agreement between the Mexican government and the Covax multilateral facility to immunize 20 percent of the Mexican population, the Foreign Secretary said that the first shipment is expected to arrive in Mexico in late April and consist of over one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. He also noted that, together with the expected and confirmed shipments from Pfizer, CanSino and Sinovac, Mexico should close out the month of April with 6.4 million more doses of vaccines to accelerate the speed at which everyone is vaccinated, as instructed by the President. 

The Foreign Secretary also made reference to the international scenario for COVID-19 vaccinations, saying that Mexico is ranked 13th in the world per the number of doses administered. Meanwhile, 42 countries haven't even started their vaccination campaigns. Therefore, he again called on the international community, as he has done previously in the United Nations Security Council, to guarantee fair, equitable and timely access to vaccines around the world.  

Foreign Secretary Ebrard emphasized the enormous disparity in access to vaccines. He stressed that the top-ranked countries in terms of doses administered are the vaccine-producing countries. Therefore, he insisted on the importance of Mexico having its own COVID-19 vaccine to beat the pandemic instead of depending on other nations.  

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducts a foreign policy that prioritizes the health of the Mexican people, and it reaffirms its commitment to contributing to universal, timely and equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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