Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters on Tuesday that the Mexican delegation to the United Nations would file a complaint to the UN Security Council tomorrow about the “inequality” and “inequality” which he said was hampering access to vaccines. .
‘The countries that produce [vaccines] have higher vaccination rates and Latin America and the Caribbean have much less, “Ebrard said. We are going to increase it in the Security Council because it is not fair, “he concluded.
With scarce supplies, the global concern of the Mexican government over whether some countries are accumulating vaccines.
Richer countries such as the United States, Israel, China and the United Kingdom are at or near the top of the number of vaccinations given so far, while many poorer countries have yet to offer a single dose.
“Although vaccines give hope to some people, they are becoming another brick in the wall of inequality between the world’s possessions and possessions,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization, said in January.
“Even though they speak the language of fair access, some countries and companies continue to prioritize bilateral transactions … to raise prices and to jump in front of the queue. That is wrong,” he said.
WHO officials are concerned that such behavior could jeopardize their equitable distribution facility, called Covax. By the end of this year, Covax plans to distribute approximately 2 billion doses of the vaccine worldwide, many of which will go to poorer countries.
Mexico’s complaint at the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, a poor part of the world devastated by the pandemic in particular.
Covax’s distribution has not yet begun, although it announced plans earlier this month to distribute more than 35 million doses of vaccine across the region by the end of the second quarter, with the potential for more supplies to be available.
But it is a drop in the bucket of the 500 million people in the region who, according to the Pan-American Health Organization, need to be vaccinated to control the pandemic.