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Mexico president will get COVID-19 vaccine
MEXICO CITY – Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he will be vaccinated against COVID-19 next week, but doesn’t want it to become a “spectacle.”
The president suffered a COVID-19 infection in January and said a recent blood test showed he still had antibodies in his system, but his doctors recommended he be vaccinated.
The 67-year-old leader was criticized early in the pandemic for not conveying the gravity of the situation. He has consistently refused to push for more drastic lockdowns used in other countries, calling such tactics “authoritarian.”
Mexico is trying to get everyone over age 60 vaccinated by April.
The country has tallied more than 202,000 test-confirmed COVID-19 deaths, though the government puts the real COVID toll at more than 322,000.
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