Desperation grows as Mexico runs out of vaccines
The metropolis — the place hospitals are over 80% full — permits solely take-out service, with open air-dining allowed at some eating places which have outdoors area. But staff say that enterprise isn’t sufficient to maintain them going.
Even as Mexico scrambles to line up shipments of Russia’s Sputnik vaccine, no new doses are anticipated to reach till mid-month.
Millions of Mexicans who tried to register for vaccines after they do arrive had been met with a non-functional web site. Authorities have mentioned the quantity of folks in search of to register overloaded the federal government internet web page and its servers.
The official recommendation because the website was launched Tuesday has been to maintain making an attempt.
But even to search out out the positioning wasn’t working, Mexicans nonetheless needed to go a Captcha “I am not a robot” take a look at in English, asking them to choose out photographs of objects like curbside hearth hydrants that don’t exist in Mexico, or objects like chimneys that look very completely different in Mexico.
While the positioning at the least now hundreds — on Wednesday it merely returned a server error message — the holdup now seems within the hyperlink to a different authorities company that has to examine official ID numbers. That company spends hours “checking” registration requests, solely to return a message of “no response.”
Authorities have mentioned they’re nonetheless engaged on getting sufficient server capability to deal with the quantity of folks making an attempt to register.
Mexico has acquired solely about 760,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and has solely about 89,000 of these left, many of that are earmarked for second pictures.
It expects to get extra Pfizer doses by mid-month, and as many as 400,000 Sputnik pictures by the top of February, however they gained’t be sufficient to vaccinate even the nation’s 750,000 frontline well being employees and characterize a drop within the bucket for Mexico’s inhabitants of 126 million.
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