Mexico’s president stated Monday he wont get a COVID-19 vaccine as a result of his medical doctors advised him he nonetheless has a excessive degree of antibodies from when he was contaminated in January.
I’ve ample ranges of antibodies and proper now it isnt indispensable for me to get vaccinated for now,” said President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador.
Lpez Obrador would have gotten a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine last week, based on his address in a borough in the citys center, where he lives in an apartment at the National Palace.
The president had repeatedly said he would wait his turn in line to get vaccinated, and didn’t want it to become a spectacle.
In late March, Lpez Obrador had said he would be vaccinated when people over 60 in Mexico City’s central boroughs got their first shots.
But he said a second group of doctors he consulted told him it wasn’t necessary, though he did not rule out getting what for most elders will be their second dose in June.
So far, Mexico has received 14.7 million doses of several brands of vaccines, and administered almost 9 million shots so far. That is still a small amount, considering the country’s population of 126 million.
The 67-year-old leader was criticized early in the pandemic for not conveying the gravity of the situation. He has consistently refused to push for more drastic lockdowns used in other countries, calling such tactics authoritarian.
The nation has tallied greater than 204,000 test-confirmed COVID-19 deaths, although the federal government places the true COVID toll at virtually 324,000.
