MEXICO.- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that he will not put on the COVID-19 vaccine. He stated his doctors told him that he still has a high level of antibodies after contracting the disease in January this year.
“I have enough antibodies and it is not essential for now that I get vaccinated,” said López Obrador.
The president has said that he would wait for his turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and that he does not want it to become a “show.”
At the end of March, López Obrador said that he would be vaccinated when the population of 60 and over in downtown Mexico City neighborhoods received their first doses.
However, he indicated that the second group of doctors he consulted told him it was not necessary. He does not rule out receiving what for most older adults will be the second dose of it in June.
So far, Mexico has received 14.7 million doses of various vaccines and has applied about 9 million. That is still a low number when you consider that the country has approximately 126 million inhabitants.
López Obrador was criticized in the early stages of the pandemic for not expressing the seriousness of the situation.
He has consistently refused to push for more drastic lockdowns imposed in other countries, calling such tactics “authoritarian.”
The country registers more than 204,399 deaths from COVID-19 confirmed by tests. Then again, the government considers that the real number of deaths from coronavirus is almost 324,000