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Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 doses of the US-German Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. A Mexican nurse has become the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. The country has one of the highest death cases in the world, after the US, Brazil and India.
The first 3,000 doses of vaccine arrived in Mexico on Wednesday from Belgium.
The Mexican government has said that it wants to vaccinate all health workers fighting the pandemic. The country has recorded more than 1.3 million infections so far, with at least 121,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins university.
Similarly, on Thursday, Chile and Costa Rica also began vaccination campaign with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Chile has had nearly 600,000 confirmed cases and more than 16,300 deaths; Costa Rica - nearly 163,000 cases and over 2,000 covid -related deaths.
Chile's President, Sebastian Piñera, described the start of his country's national coronavirus immunisation programme as a moment of hope and excitement.
Argentina has planned to start vaccination in few with Russian-produced Sputnik V vaccine in its initial phase, with a delivery of 300,000 doses arriving in the capital Buenos Aires on Thursday morning. Argentina has recorded 1.6 million cases and more than 42,300 deaths.
Argentina's health authorities earlier this week had given Russia's Sputnik V vaccine "emergency" authorisation - the first Latin American nation to do so.
On Thursday, the first 300,000 doses were flown in from Moscow to Buenos Aires. Argentina has so far reported more than 1.5 million infections, with more than 42,000 deaths.
Brazil, is all set for vaccination from mid-February. President Jair Bolsonaro says he is not planning to be inoculated and believes he has developed immunity against coronavirus.
