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First batch of Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine may reach Mexico next week

The contract for vaccine delivery may be signed today, according to Director of the Health Institute for Wellbeing Juan Ferrer

MEXICO CITY, January 26. /TASS/. The first batch of the Russian Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine is expected to reach Mexico next week, Juan Ferrer, director of the Health Institute for Wellbeing (INSABI) that was set up under the Health Ministry in 2020, said on Tuesday.

"The first batch [of the Russian vaccine] may arrive next week. It will be about 200,000 doses," he told a news conference broadcast on the presidential administration’s website.

Contract for vaccine delivery

Mexico may sign a contract for Sputnik V already today, Juan Ferrer informed. "Probably, we will sign the contract today," he told the news conference.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday after telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Mexico expected to receive 24 million Sputnik V doses within the next two months.

Meanwhile, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel on January 21 that the Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine was expected to be soon registered in Mexico.

Since February 2020, Mexico has reported 1,771,740 confirmed coronavirus cases and 150,273 coronavirus-associated deaths. More than 1.33 million patients have recovered.

A vaccination campaign among medical personnel kicked off in Mexico on December 24. By now, around 630,000 doses of the Pfizer-manufactured vaccine have been used.