The first vaccinations will be reserved for frontline medical workers, and will be administered in Mexico City and the northern state of Coahuila because of the logistics related to the cold temperatures required for the shots.
The first shipment of Pfizer vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will arrive tomorrow.
Mexico City, Mexico:
Health Ministry Undersecretary Hugo Lopez Gatel said Mexico will start vaccinations against Covid-19 on Thursday, a day after the country received its first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
"Tomorrow (Wednesday) the first shipment of Pfizer vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will arrive," he said on Twitter.
"There will be an opportunity for the press, and then the vaccine will be protected until it is used on Thursday, December 24, the day the vaccinations start," said Lopez Gatel.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said 1.4 million doses would arrive from Belgium out of the 34.4 million that the company had agreed to deliver.
The first vaccinations will be reserved for frontline medical workers, and will be administered in Mexico City and the northern state of Coahuila because of the logistics related to the cold temperatures required for the shots.
Mexico has also concluded initial purchase agreements with the Chinese-Canadian project, CanSinoBio, for 35 million doses, and with the British company, AstraZeneca, for 77.4 million doses.
It is also part of the international COVAX mechanism that aims to ensure equitable access to all countries, allowing them to purchase 51.6 million additional vaccines.
Mexico has recorded 119,495 virus-related deaths and 1.33 million infections, according to official figures.
It ranks fourth in the number of deaths after the United States, Brazil and India, and it ranks 15th in terms of deaths per 100,000 residents.
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