More donations: Mexico sends vaccines to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras

On Tuesday, June 22, Mexico sent 400 thousand vaccines to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. They sent AstraZeneca vaccines to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras again this Thursday, June 24.

Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE), informed that the federal government sent 400 thousand 800 doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine against COVID-19 to these Central American countries.

The vaccines were sent in three Air Force planes, each plane destined for each country.

Despegando en avión de la Fuerza Aérea Mexicana con 150 mil dosis de AstraZeneca a bordo, vamos a Guatemala, otro avión a Honduras y uno más a El Salvador. Es una donación de dosis envasadas en México cuya sustancia activa se elaboró en Argentina. Unidos somos mejores . pic.twitter.com/cixoGGIixY

— Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) June 24, 2021

As to how the doses will be distributed among the countries, the SRE specified that 150 thousand doses will be donated to Guatemala, 100 thousand 800 to El Salvador and 150 thousand to Honduras.

📸Hoy, México donará vacunas AstraZeneca contra #COVID19 a los países hermanos de Centroamérica: Guatemala🇬🇹 (150 mil dosis), El Salvador🇸🇻 (100 mil 800) y Honduras🇭🇳 (150 mil).

Una región unida es una región fuerte, sobre todo en momentos difíciles.
🇲🇽🤝🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳 pic.twitter.com/Cqc5oN3qN3

— Relaciones Exteriores (@SRE_mx) June 24, 2021

Martha Delgado, Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, pointed out that intra regional solidarity must prevail in times of crisis, the secretary boarded the plane that departed for Honduras and Ebrard boarded the one for Guatemala.

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