Mass vaccination commences in Latin America

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Intense-treatment nurse María Irene Ramirez said she wanted to be vaccinated so she could “continue to be in the line of fireplace”

A Mexican nurse has become the very first man or woman in Latin America to get a coronavirus jab when her region commenced its vaccination programme on Thursday.

Mexico obtained an initial shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines the previous working day.

A limited time later, Chile started administering the identical vaccine, with Costa Rica to comply with later on on Thursday.

Mexico has a single of the highest pandemic dying tolls in the environment, exceeded only by the US, Brazil and India.

In the meantime, Argentina mentioned on Wednesday it experienced accredited the crisis use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and a delivery of 300,000 doses arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday morning.

In Mexico, María Irene Ramirez, 59, the head of the intense care device at Ruben Leñero Healthcare facility in Mexico Town, was the very first to volunteer to be vaccinated.

“We are frightened, but we have to shift on […] and I want to remain in the line of hearth,” she mentioned afterwards, according to El Universal newspaper.

The first 3,000 doses – of 34 million bought – arrived in Mexico on Wednesday from Belgium, where they are getting manufactured.

Footage of the launch was broadcast all through President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s televised morning information convention.

The Mexican governing administration says it would like to vaccinate all well being employees fighting the pandemic by the finish of the initial quarter of 2021.

The nation has recorded far more than 120,000 Covid-relevant fatalities so significantly.

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