MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Mexico on Thursday kicked off its vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, with a vaccine developed by U.S. laboratory Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.
With healthcare workers prioritized, the first person to be vaccinated was Maria Irene Ramirez, head of nursing at the intensive care unit of the Ruben Lenero Hospital in Mexico City, the capital and one of the regions hit the worst by the pandemic, with 302,199 confirmed cases and 20,472 deaths.
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