Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard tweeted today that three million doses of the CansinoBio vaccine arrived at the Mexico City airport very early this morning. The Chinese pharmaceutical maker shipped the active substance of the vaccine, which the Mexican company DrugMex is ready to package in vials; the vaccine should start being injected into Mexican arms within days. But that’s just a start. Ebrard also tweeted that agreements have also been reached with two other Chinese companies—Sinovac for 10 million doses, and Sinopharm for 12.1 million—which are to arrive in April, May, and June.
“Eleven million more people vaccinated. Our gratitude to the Government of the People’s Republic of China for its decided and timely support,” Ebrard celebrated.
The day before, a plane had arrived, carrying the first 200,000 of another half-million doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine scheduled to arrive by the end of March.
