Mexico to file complaint at UN over vaccine distribution - News Summed Up

Mexico to file complaint at UN over vaccine distribution


Mexico City (CNN) Mexico isn't happy with the way coronavirus vaccines are being rolled out worldwide, saying the process favors richer countries while leaving poorer countries behind. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters Tuesday that the Mexican delegation to the United Nations will file a complaint at the UN Security Council tomorrow concerning the "inequality" and "inequity" that he says impede vaccine access. "We're going to raise it in the Security Council because it's not fair," he concluded. Mexico has struggled with its vaccine rollout , only managing to administer about 750,000 vaccine doses so far, despite having signed purchase agreements for the eventual delivery of more than 230 million doses of various Covid-19 vaccines. Mexico's complaint at Wednesday's UN Security Council meeting will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, a poor part of the world particularly devastated by the pandemic.


Source: CNN February 16, 2021 19:30 UTC



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