Mexico to step up COVID-19 vaccination campaign, say authorities

Xinhua
19 May 2021, 03:35 GMT+10

MEXICO CITY, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Mexico will intensify its vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), aiming to complete the entire process by October, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.

In his daily press conference, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his administration will expand the brigades and vaccination centers to reach more people, as part of the plan launched in December.

"We are determined to take on even more activity, to apply ourselves more. Brigades will be expanded to vaccinate more people as soon as possible," the president told journalists at the National Palace in Mexico City.

"We want to complete vaccination by the month of October, long before winter starts, that is the plan," Lopez Obrador stressed.

"Victory cannot yet be proclaimed" in the face of the pandemic, though there have been clear signs of a decline in both new cases of infection and in the number of deaths, he said.

Meanwhile, the deputy health minister, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, said the pandemic that hit Mexico at the end of February 2020, and peaked in July of that year and again in January 2021, has seen 17 weeks in a row of declining infection and death rates.

Lopez-Gatell commented to credit the immunization drive, saying "vaccination against COVID is advancing, it is on the rise."

Mexico has the world's fourth-highest COVID-19 death toll, after the United States, Brazil and India, with 220,489 deaths from the disease.

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