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Mexican authorities on Wednesday celebrated the announcement that the country has nonetheless developed its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations were launched from the United States, Europe and China.
It was unclear how the vaccine, called “Patria” or “Patria,” would be used as part of a joint effort between the government and a Mexican company, Avimex, which in the past worked on vaccines for animals.
Mexico’s vaccine intake dropped dramatically in 2022 and 2023, and Mexico still has millions of doses of the Abdala vaccine it purchased from Cuba.
Maria Elena Alvarez-Buylla, head of the Mexican government’s science and technology commission, said the new vaccine would be approved for use as a booster. He did say whether the government’s medical approval firm officially legalized the Patria vaccine.
Mexico began introducing the Patria vaccine in March 2020, but testing was slow and the country ended up loading 225 million doses, most commonly Astra-Zeneca and Pfizer, and some Chinese vaccines.
Mexico purchased nine million doses of the Cuban-made Abdala vaccine in September 2022, although it was designed for coronavirus variants that will circulate in 2020 or 2021, there are no variants. Few Mexicans have come forward to receive Cuban booster shots.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been willing to try to make Mexico self-sufficient in many industries, while supporting Cuba as much as he can.
“This opens the door to vaccine sovereignty,” Alvarez-Buylla said.
The official number of test-confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Mexico is about 334,000, but testing is scarce at the beginning of the pandemic, and the government’s death certificate review shows more than 505,000 deaths for which COVID-19 was listed as a contributing cause of death.
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