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11 November: Nearly 60 percent of Mexico's population has had at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and of that group more than 80 percent are fully vaccinated. 

27 September: Nearly half of Mexico's population has had at least one dose of vaccine, and of that group 70 percent are fully vaccinated. Some areas have significantly higher vaccination rates: Mexico City and Querétaro have vaccinated nine out of 10 adults. Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Hidalgo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Yucatán and Zacatecas report coverage between 72 and 86 percent.

24 September: Officials announced that young people between 12 and 17 years old will only be given the Pfizer-BioNTech COIVD_19 vaccine if they are at risk for serious infection. The vaccine will not be used among all children 12 and older, as it has been in other countries. In Mexico, people 12-17 with cancer, diabetes or heart issues are eligible for vaccination.

16 August: Nationally, 61 percent of adults have received at least one vaccine. About half of them are fully vaccinated. Nine out of every ten adults in Mexico City has been vaccinated. Other states with high vaccination rates include Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Baja California, Zacatecas, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Aguascalientes, Yucatán and Sonora.

The national government also announced that a chatbot on WhatsApp 5617130557 can answer FAQs and provide a downloadable vaccination certificate.

28 July: For the second day in a row, more than 1 million doses were administered across the country. Half of all eligible adults have received at least one vaccine dose, and more than half of that group is fully vaccinated. In Baja California, Mexico City, Baja California Sur, and Chihuahua, more than 70 percent of all adults have been vaccinated.

19 July: The Health Ministry reported that 585,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were received from the United States as part of the COVAX initiative. In addition, a further 1,031,940 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived through COVAX.

17 July: More than 2.8 million vaccine doses arrived today. One million Sinovac doses were flown in, and 1.86 million AstraZeneca that were packaged at the domestically are now available. During the week, more than six million other dosesd were made available as well from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, CanSino and the National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamaleya, which produces Sputnik V. This brings the total vaccines that have been available to the government up to nearly 74 million. Around 42 percent of the adult population has received at least one vaccine dose.

2 July: More than 2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in Mexico City today. This is the largest shipment received to date in Mexico, bringing the country's total vaccines up past 59 million. Around 35 percent of Mexicans over 18 years old have had at least one vaccine dose to date.

Starting next week, people ages 30-39 will be able to receive the vaccine in the municipalities of Cuajimalpa, Magdalena Contreras, Milpa Alta, Cuauhtemoc and Xochimilco. Mexico City went from yellow to orange status in the national biweekly assessment late last month, due to increased cases.

23 June: The government has increased their vaccine stockpile as of 20 June 2021. The latest shipment of 1.2 million AstraZeneca vaccines, brings the total amount of vaccines acquired from this company to 12.2 million. In totality, the Mexican government has acquired 51,163,275 COVID-19 vaccines from the pharmaceutical companies: Pfizer, Johnson&Johnson, Sinovac, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Cansino, and Sputnik V. The following breakdown lists the company and the vaccine doses acquired from them:

• Pfizer: 20,083,065
• Sinovac: 8,000,000
• Oxford/AstraZeneca: 12,293,600
• Cansino: 4,645,310
• Sputnik V: 3,750,000
• Johnson&Johnson: 1,350,000

The government reports they have now secured contracts for approximately 244 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The following breakdown lists the company and the respective associated contact:

• COVAX: 51,100,000
• Oxford/AstraZeneca: 77,400,000
• Pfizer: 34,400,000
• Cansino: 35,000,000
• Sputnik V: 24,000,000
• Sinovac: 20,000,000

3 June: The US is sending a million Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses, most of which will be used in resort areas and areas bordering the US.

29 May: As of June, adults aged 40 and over are allowed to register for vaccination. It is anticipated they will receive vaccines in the first half of the month.

28 May: 2,229,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in the country today. The delivery came as part of the COVAX scheme but was funded by the national government.

27 May: The Mexican Government’s Medical Safety Commission (COFEPRIS) approved the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine today. The national health minister said the country is already administering five approved COVID vaccines and has no immediate plans to obtain any Janssen doses.

29 April: Media reports that Mexico will begin to locally bottle the Sputnik V vaccine as early as in May. The vaccine’s active ingredient will be shipped from Russia to the state-owned manufacturer Birmex. This would be bottled, packaged and distributed around Mexico.

Mexico has only received just over 1 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine of the 24 million doses purchased. Almost all of these doses have already been distributed.

Around 16.7 million vaccine doses have been administered to date, with over 6 million people (just under 5% of the population) fully vaccinated. The country is using AstraZeneca, CanSino, Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinovac and Sputnik V vaccines as part of their campaign.

14 March: A million doses of Sinovac Biotech have arrived in the country. Mexico has ordered 20 million doses of Sinovac, they are expected to arrive in the country between March and July.

23 February: A shipment of about 200,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine has arrived in Mexico. These doses will be used to vaccinate seniors in the country. Emergency use of the vaccine was approved in early February.

17 February: Seniors across at least 253 municipalities in 30 states of Mexico are being vaccinated against COVID-19. The country plans to vaccinate more than 15 million adults of 60 years of age. According to the latest press release more than 189,000 doses have been used since vaccination began for the elderly.

11 February: Emergency use authorization has been granted to Sinovac and CanSino vaccines in Mexico. CanSino is already being trialled in the country.

5 January: The Mexican Government’s Medical Safety Commission (COFEPRIS) has granted emergency use authorization to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on 4 January 2021.