When participating in the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón raised the need to advance the recognition of all vaccines against the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. COVID-19.
The Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) reported that the Mexican official expressed the importance of advancing in the approval of drugs endorsed by the regulatory agencies of the WHO member countries.
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“This will increase the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns, by promoting greater people’s trust in biologicals and avoiding their selectivity from which countries or regions have recognized them,” said the agency.
A few weeks ago, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the slowness with which the health authorities have acted in the recognition of some vaccines against COVID-19 such as the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino.
The claim originated days after the governments of Mexico and the United States agreed to reopen the land border to non-essential travel for tourists vaccinated with doses from laboratories endorsed only by the WHO.
On the other hand, as part of his activities at the G20, Ebrard Casaubón exchanged greetings with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
Similarly, it will hold bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of China, South Africa and Argentina.
Ebrard has met with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte; with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel; the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi; and the president of Argentina; Alberto Fernandez.