Mexico starts giving first shots of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine

MEXICO CITY (AP)

An intensive care nurse in Mexico City has become the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine.

Mexico began administering the first 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Thursday.

In a broadcast ceremony, Maria Irene Ramirez got the first shot, under the watchful eyes of military personnel who escorted the vaccine shipment. Ramirez called it “the best present I could have received in 2020.”

Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell waxed poetic, saying, "Today the stage of the epidemic and its treatment changes, to a ray of hope.”