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8/28/21 Mexico: Cofepris promotes P3 authorization of 3 new vaccines against Covid: INO-4800, Walvax, Sanofi in coming days. Following the approval of Sinopharm this week, Cofepris will evaluate another 3 biologics,

In the last year, one of the priorities of Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has been the negotiation with the different pharmaceutical companies and governments of the world to achieve the arrival to the country of vaccines against Covid-19, a management that has even been praised by critics and most staunch opponents of Q4 and of the strategy headed by the Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell.

Now, and while the Delta variant causes a worsening of the pandemic in much of the world, Mexico included, Ebrard announced during his appearance before the Morena senators that the health authorities could authorize in a short time another 3 biologicals to join the campaign of vaccination.

"We are going to have, in the coming days, other types of authorizations for phase III in Mexico, such as Walvax, which is a Chinese messenger RNA vaccine; Inovio, which is a vaccine based on North American DNA; or Sanofi, which it is a vaccine of French origin, "said the head of Mexican diplomacy.

This announcement comes some after Cofepris approved the Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use, which will be the third Chinese vaccine that will begin to be applied in the country, as is already being done in 40 countries, including much of the Asian continent and Latin America. .

It will also be the ninth vaccine that residents of Mexico will be inoculated with, after the regulatory agency gave the go-ahead in the past to Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Cansino, Sputnik V, Sinovac, Covaxin, Janssen and Moderna vaccines.

In making the announcement, Ebrard said that this was part of the strategy to "have timely access to vaccines and accelerate vaccination in Mexico to try to contain and reduce the impact of the pandemic."

In addition, he said that negotiations with the Biden government will continue to open the land borders with the United States as soon as possible, something that the Chancellor himself recognized in recent days that will not be in the short term due to the increase in cases due to the Delta variant. although he said he was confident that it will be before the end of the year.

According to the latest official data, almost 84 million vaccines have been applied in Mexico since the start of the vaccination program in late December, and 3.4 million vaccines arrived this week alone, in shipments from Pifizer, Cansino and Moderna.

Around 33 million have already been immunized in Mexico against Covid-19, with Mexico City, Baja California and Baja California Sur being the states with the largest population vaccinated with the two doses.

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