May 04, 2023 04:45 am | Updated 04:45 am IST - MEXICO CITYMexican officials celebrated on May 3 the announcement that the country finally developed its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out. Vaccine uptake in Mexico dropped precipitously in late 2022 and 2023, and Mexico still has millions of doses of the Abdala vaccine it bought from Cuba. She did not say whether the government medical approval agency had formally authorized the Patria vaccine. Mexico started developing the Patria vaccine in March 2020. Mexico bought 9 million doses of the Cuban-made Abdala vaccine in September 2022, even though it was designed for coronavirus variants circulating in 2020 or 2021, not current variants.

Source: The Hindu May 04, 2023 07:18 UTC