MEXICO CITY
An intensive care nurse in Mexico City on Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Mexico began administering the first 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a broadcast ceremony in which Maria Irene Ramírez, 59, got the first shot under the watchful eyes of military personnel who escorted the vaccine shipment.
“This is the best present I could have received in 2020,” said Ramírez. ”The truth is we are afraid, but we have to keep going because someone has to be in the front line of this battle.”
Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell waxed poetic, saying, “Today the stage of the epidemic and its treatment changes, to a ray of hope.”
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