María Flor Hernández, a 74-year-old woman, was one of the first to attend the call to get her second booster dose.
“I gave it (the vaccine) because of my decision because I said right now it’s time I have to vaccinate the fourth (dose) so that I have everything,” he told EFE after applying the AstraZeneca biological.
On April 13, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that this month he would end vaccination against COVID-19 in adults over 18 years of age, so that in the last two weeks of the month he would begin mass vaccination throughout the country.
Where are they placing the covid booster vaccine?
In Mexico City as of today, according to authorities, 187 health centers have been set up, of which 25 are Family Medicine units of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), 45 units of the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) and 117 from the local Ministry of Health.
“We have contemplated the application of half a million AstraZeneca vaccines that are aimed at completing the vaccination schedules, either with the second dose or with the reinforcements, which is the most important part,” Jorge Alfredo Ochoa Moreno, general director, told the media. of Public Health Services of Mexico City.
The official reiterated that the vaccine is available to anyone who wants to be inoculated, including people who do not have any doses and foreigners.
“They can come from other states. Even today (foreigners) were among the first to be vaccinated, foreign people who were from a shelter, ”he specified.