COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy: Mexico courts allies across ideological spectrum

📆 8/30/2020 4:50 PM
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Mexico is pressing ahead with an effort to forge COVID-19 vaccine alliances across a wide ideological spectrum of countries from France to Cuba as a World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine initiative will fall short of its needs.

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a"Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

“We can’t depend on it,” said Delgado. “COVAX promises to help with 20% of the population - we need a bigger quantity of vaccines and so do other countries as well.” The foreign ministry underscored, in an emailed statement, that “vaccine nationalism” should be avoided because “no one will be safe until everyone is safe, and for that reason, negotiation, diplomacy and multilateralism play a crucial role.”

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