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Mexico Approves Pfizer Vaccine for Emergency Use as Covid Surges
- Country sees cases rise by more than 11,000 four days straight
- Hospitalizations in capital accelerate as the virus spreads
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Mexico’s health agency Cofepris approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said at a press conference Friday night.
The health agency began reviewing data on the vaccine Nov. 26 and a 24-member committee voted unanimously to approve its use, according to a statement. Mexico joins the U.K., Canada and the U.S. as countries that have granted emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine. It’s the first country in Latin America to do so.