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Mexico, Chile lead Latin America’s first vaccine rollouts – SBS News
Mexico is the first country in Latin America to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with Chile and Costa Rica following not far behind.
Frontline medical workers in Mexico and Chile were among the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as several countries in hard-hit Latin America launched mass immunisation programs.
“It’s the best gift I could receive in 2020,” 59-year-old Mexican nurse Maria Irene Ramirez said as she received the injection at a hospital in the capital on Christmas Eve.
“It makes me safer and gives me more courage to continue in the war against an invisible enemy. We’re afraid but we must continue.”
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