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By Yucatan Times on January 8, 2021
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(Reuters) – Mexico’s president said on Wednesday he was ready to provide coronavirus vaccines to undocumented migrants in the United States, after the governor of the U.S. state of Nebraska said they would likely not get vaccinated due to immigration status.
“It’s a universal right. We would do it,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a regular government news conference when asked if Mexico would vaccinate undocumented migrants in the United States, many of which are Mexican nationals.
He did not elaborate on how his government would execute such a plan, or which migrants would qualify.
Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021
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A healthcare worker administers the vaccine to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man at Clalit Health Services in Jerusalem
Order early, pay a lot, digitise distribution and stretch the supply.
That is how Israel came to be a leader of the world s Covid-19 vaccination drive, reaching nearly 15% of the country s 9.3 million population in about two weeks.
The first big decision was paying a premium to get early vaccines.
Israeli authorities have not said publicly what they paid for the vaccine developed by US company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech.
But one official said on condition of anonymity that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government was paying around $30 per vaccine dose, or around twice the price abroad .