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Over 30 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Mexico, health authorities say

01 June 2021 09:33 (UTC +04:00)

Mexico has administered more than 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses out of 39.8 million that were purchased from different companies, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell Ramirez said, APA reports citing Sputnik.

"From December 23, 2020, Mexico has used 30,477,703 vaccine doses," Lopez-Gatell Ramirez said during a press conference, broadcast on Twitter.

The country has already fully vaccinated 12.4 million people, 24 percent of the entire adult population. Another 9.3 million have received a single jab so far.

Mexico launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive in December, starting with frontline medical workers. The country is using five different vaccines — those by Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford/AstraZeneca, as well as China's Sinovac and Cansino, and also Russia's Sputnik V.