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Covid: Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica begin mass vaccination BBC 25th December, 2020 10:16:42 A Mexican nurse became the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday. Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 doses of the US-German Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The country has one of the highest pandemic death tolls in the world, behind only the US, Brazil and India. A short time later on Thursday, Chile and Costa Rica a...

Southern States Are Facing an Explosion of Virus Cases Last Updated Dec. 25, 2020, 11:11 a.m. ETDec. 25, 2020, 11:11 a.m. ET As Mexico begins a mass inoculation program, Iran gets U.S. clearance to buy the vaccine. Warnings or no warnings, millions of Americans are traveling for the holidays. This briefing has ended. Tennessee has reported the country’s most cases per 100,000 people on average over the last seven days. Gov. Bill Lee has refused to enforce a mask mandate, but an employee at a...

news Mass vaccination begins in Latin America © Reuters Intensive-care nurse María Irene Ramirez said she wanted to be vaccinated so she could "stay in the line of fire" A Mexican nurse has become the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday. Mexico received an initial shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines the previous day. A short time later, Chile began administering the same vaccine, with Costa Rica to follow...

Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Mexico just in time for Christmas 2 minutes read By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla Mexico City, Dec 24 (efe-epa).- The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was welcomed Thursday like a Christmas gift by the 3,000 medical professionals selected to be part of the first phase of vaccination in Mexico, which trails only the United States, Brazil and India in Covid-19 deaths. Maria Irene Ramirez, the director of nursing in the intensive care unit at Mexico City’s Ruben Leñer...

Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica become the first countries in Latin America to begin vaccination campaigns.

3 Min Read MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico on Thursday inoculated its first person against COVID-19 to kick off a fightback from a pandemic that has killed 120,000 people in the country and battered the economy, celebrating a Christmas roll-out that also began elsewhere in Latin America. In a ceremony broadcast on national media and watched by the president, officials directed the administration of the Pfizer vaccine to 59-year-old nurse Maria Irene Ramirez, head nurse at the intensive care unit ...