Mexico’s Vaccine Pledges Vary Among Officials as Doses Run Low
A member of the National Guard stands near healthcare workers administering doses of the Pfizer BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the Centenario Hospital Miguel Hidalgo in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on Jan. 14.
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Four high-ranking officials in Mexico’s government including the president have different numbers for what the country is supposed to be receiving in Covid-19 vaccine shipments in the coming days.
Pfizer will ship close to 600,000 shots next week, Finance Minister Arturo Herrera told news website Latinus on Thursday. By Friday morning, Deputy Foreign Minister Martha Delgado told a Televisa morning news show Mexico was receiving 491,000 Pfizer shots.