Mexico looks for US help as AstraZeneca admits Latin American COVID-19 vaccine delay

FILE PHOTO: A woman receives a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease vaccine, during a mass vaccination program in Monterrey, Mexico April 12, 2021. REUTERS/Daniel BecerrilMEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday the United States would probably send his country 5 million more doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, as the company admitted production in Latin American had suffered multiple setbacks.

Argentina has delivered cargos of the active ingredient to Mexico, but Liomont's commercial production has slipped from an original target of March. In a statement shared with Reuters on Friday, AstraZeneca said deliveries of the shots would now begin before the end of June.

The Mexican government has said the Liomont factory has undergone major upgrades to produce the AstraZeneca vaccine, and that it has taken longer than expected for the factory to win regulatory approvals.An additional site in the United States will help meet the target of 150 million doses for the region, excluding Brazil, this year, AstraZeneca said, but 80 per cent of the shots will still be bottled at the Mexico plant.

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