On Monday, Mexico authorized the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for emergency use in the country.

Hugo Lopez-Gatell, Deputy Health Minister, announced that Mexican regulators had approved the vaccine, which has also been authorized by Britain, India and Argentina. Lopez-Gastell stated that the vaccine could be available in March in the country. Mexico had already started a mass immunization program with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 24, with priority given to health workers. Around 30,000 workers had received the vaccine dose by Sunday, as per government data. Mexico has an agreement with AstraZeneca for the purchase of 77.4 million doses of its vaccine… (NDTV - Agence France-Presse, January 5, 2021)