The Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology approved this Thursday, October 7, the packaging of the COVID-19 vaccine from Sputnik-V in Mexico.
Pedro Zenteno, General Director of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex); and Alejandro Svarch Pérez, head of the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), will travel today, October 8, to Russia to finalize commercial agreements with the Direct Investment Fund of Russia.
The director of Birmex explained to the reporter of “In the morning”, Andrea Meraz, that next week foresees the signing of commercial and technology transfer agreements so that the vaccine Sputnik-V is already packaged in Mexico.
“He did not want to give a specific date, he had already said before that between September and October, (when) Mexico would be packing the Russian biological,” Meraz stressed.
The Gamaleya National Center gave the go-ahead for Mexico to package the two Sputnik V components.
In July Birmex sent pilot tests of components 1 and 2, in both 10 liters of active substance were used that arrived on June 29 and July 5, respectively
– Andrea Meraz (@merazr) October 7, 2021
Zenteno added that this agreement will allow Mexico complete the first contract you made with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which includes a total of 24 million doses, which would be used to vaccinate 12 million people.
“To guarantee the contract that the Russian Fund signed with the Mexican Government, as a first stage, and later a platform that Mexico becomes so that this vaccine can reach the American continent and in particular Central America and the Caribbean.”
“For us the fundamental thing is that we have the technological transfer of production and that guarantees the possibility that our country and continent have a safe and effective vaccine such as the Sputnik-V “, said Pedro Zenteno.
A shipment of one million arrived in Mexico yesterday 500 thousand vaccines of Sputnik-V, which will be applied in Puebla (first dose) and State of Mexico (second dose). With this delivery, the country still needs to receive 15 million 600 thousand doses.
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