After the border state of Coahuila confirmed to 14ymedio that will return to the federal health sector around 90,000 Cuban vaccines that expire in the month of July, reports arrived at the writing of this newspaper about another 495,803 doses that expire in August and that have not been applied due to the “distrust of the population.”
A source, who omitted his name for security reasons, specified that the reinforcement campaign against covid-19 “is a failure.” In the states of “Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora and Tamaulipas, people do not go to vaccination centers,” she stressed. “Those who have possibilities prefer to go to the United States and get the bivalent dose.”
The official said that on December 19, a batch with 104,600 biologicals of the 9,000,000 that the Government of Mexico bought from the Island without having studies of its efficacy as a reinforcement against covid-19 or the approval of the World Health Organization (WHO). “Until the month of February, 68,141 vaccines had been supplied. Four months after they expire, there is not much interest from South Californians to get the biological one.”
In the state of Chihuahua “there are 97,728 refrigerated vaccines” of the 118,960 that the federal Ministry of Health sent them in February. “A broad campaign was launched for this reinforcement, but there were only 21,232 interested parties.”
“What happened in the state of Tamaulipas with this immune system shows people’s distrust of a vaccine that does not have WHO certification. It is not understood why this option was chosen to be purchased,” said the source.
In Tamaulipas only 7% of the Cuban Abdala vaccine has been applied. According to data from the state Ministry of Health, the federal Ministry of Social Welfare delivered 119,800 doses, registration data indicates that until February 8,386 vaccines were applied.
Sonora has maintained secrecy about the dosages against covid-19. Information contained in your weekly newsletter indicates that it has a coverage of 98% in people from 12 to 49 years and 100% among those from 50 to 60 years.
The governor of the state of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, announced an agreement with the teachers’ union to vaccinate more than 40,000 teachers between March 23 and 31. “There are no reports on this campaign, although it is known that many teachers rejected the Cuban vaccine, because this group was given the dose of CanSino at the time, which did not have the WHO endorsement either, and then they ended up getting AstraZeneca,” mentioned the source.
In the state of Jalisco, which at the time rejected the Cuban option, it ended up being applied in hospitals of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). Of 100,000 doses in existence, 19,900 were applied.
Meanwhile, in Baja California Sur only 21,686 were injected and in Mexico City 206,770 doses of Abdala were injected out of 400,000 available. “Of these, the capital’s government allocated 15,979 for inmates in local prisons,” said the source.
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