Mexico will this week receive its first batches of locally-produced AstraZeneca vaccines against COVID-19, and will send half the consignment to its production partner Argentina, the Mexican government said on Tuesday.
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Mexico City, May 25 (EFE).- An effort by Mexico and Argentina to jointly produce the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca will make Latin America’s immunization process less dependent on the rest of the world, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said Tuesday in a video call with Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
He made that assertion after announcing during Lopez Obrador’s daily press conference that an initial batch of 800,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be shipped to Argentina from Mexico this weekend after a months-long delay. An equal number of doses resulting from that initiative will be distributed simultaneously in Mexico.
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Workers unload a batch of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine after its arrival at Benito Juarez s international airport in Mexico City, Mexico February 14, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
Mexico will this week receive its first batches of locally-produced AstraZeneca (AZN.L) vaccines against COVID-19, and will send half the consignment to its production partner Argentina, the Mexican government said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico would at the weekend receive 800,000 AstraZeneca doses and send 800,000 more to Argentina, which is working with Mexico to produce vaccines from the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company.
Mexico, which is using an active ingredient made in Argentina, had initially aimed to begin production of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March. Hold-ups at the plant in the State of Mexico near the capital have pushed back the deadline.
The grill master salts the cut of beef that is to go into the fire, from where it heads to the table where a hungry family is gathered. It is an age-old ritual for Argentines to get together over a jaw-dropping <i>asado</i>, but one that has grown increasingly out of the reach of many of them.
“Aside from being nourishment, beef is the center of the whole barbecue culture we Argentines have,” said Emmanuel Lapetina, president of La Pena meatpackers.
“It is the get-together; it is the Sunday barbecue and it is the excuse to get together with the family on weekends.”