The Mexico City strategy to integrate a panda mascot, call Pandemic, to encourage people who come to get vaccinated against COVID-19 not only generated sympathy among Mexicans, because now it is a celebrity in Japan.
This afternoon a report made by the japanese television ANN News a Pandemic, the mascot that makes those who are in the rest area dance and do physical activity within the vaccination centers of the capital.
Well, it was curious for Mexican netizens that on the other side of the world dedicated a segment to a local character.
“A panda appears in the monitoring room of the vaccination site in Mexico. It is said that it is the Pandemic pet that encourages vaccination. The panda costume encouraged those who finished the vaccination to exercise, “they describe in the news.
In the images, some people from the capital appear first receiving the vaccine and later to Pandemic doing some of their dances, encouraging people to reactivate physically.
Therefore, Internet users began to celebrate that the panda mascot was recognized in the news of Japan, in a segment called “The world fighting COVID-19” (コ ロ ナ と 闘 う 世界), causing Pandemic to go viral.
“I love you Japan, I love you Pandemic“; “Confirm if we all love Pandemic! By the way, they even know him in Japan ”; “When Pandemic becomes a rockstar in Japan”Were some of the comments.
“Imagine living in Japan and seeing on the news that Mexicans have a mascot in the vaccination campaign called Pandemio (パ ン デ ミ オ) and that he starts to strip tease to motivate young people. Go figure”; “To webo, Pandemic breaking borders, so they don’t say we don’t do anything right, “said other Twitter users.
It should be remembered that the local authorities chose a panda as a mascot because it phonetically matches the word pandemic. This is also why it is called Pandemic; although the strategy was similar to create Susana Distance during the National Healthy Distance Day, the reception that the panda has had has been greater.
According to the Ministry of Health, the epidemiological week number 30 closes with an increase of six percentage points compared to the previous week, while the number of people recovered amounted to two million 419 thousand 614 from the start of the health emergency.
Hospital occupancy remains unchanged. The bed availability overall at the national level is 46%, while in beds with a fan it is 53 percent.
Regarding vaccination, he reported that this Friday, August 13, 807 thousand 193 were applied. Mexico reached 53 million 837 thousand 225 people immunized with at least one dose against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
With a cut-off of 9:00 p.m. yesterday, 76 million 587 thousand 422 doses have been supplied in the country since the beginning of the National Vaccination Strategy. In Mexico City, nine out of 10 people over the age of 18 have the vaccine, while Quintana Roo reached 86 percent.
Total, 29 million 046 thousand 598 people over 18 years of age have completed their vaccination schedule, which represents 54 percent of those who have attended any vaccination center in Mexico. The remaining 46 percent, which are 24 million 790 thousand 627 people, have received the first dose in the protection scheme against COVID-19.
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