President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced this Saturday morning that next Tuesday, December 7, the booster vaccination will begin against Covid-19 for adults over 65 in the country.
The president assured that all this is for the winter season, “Always with a pandemic or without a pandemic in the winter, older people suffer more,” said the head of the Executive in press conference from the State of Mexico.
AMLO also ruled out that with the Omicron variant there is a rebound in the pandemic in the country; however, he reiterated that the vaccination plan will be reinforced.
The Health Secretary confirmed this Friday the first positive case of the Covid-19 Omicron variant in Mexico, in a 51-year-old person from South Africa who voluntarily admitted to a private hospital in Mexico City.
To date, in our country the circulation of the variants of concern, called Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron.