Mexico needs 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses; shots could start in April

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Mexico needs 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses; shots could start in April
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Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, according to a senior government official, and inoculation of its 120 million ...

FILE PHOTO: The company logo for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is displayed on a screen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File PhotoMEXICO CITY: Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, according to a senior government official, and inoculation of its 120 million inhabitants could start as early as April if clinical trials and regulatory approvals for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca go as planned.

Mexico's death toll of 55,908 stands as the world's third highest, behind the United States and Brazil. Latin America's 6 million cases and more than 237,000 deaths make it the world's hardest-hit region. Mexico's government has completed memorandums of understanding with French drugmaker Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit and Chinese companies CanSino Biologics Inc and Walvax Biotechnology Co Ltd.

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