Mexican minister visits Russia, vying to bring vaccine production home

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard speaks as a batch of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is unloaded after its arrival at Benito Juarez's international airport in Mexico City, Mexico February 14, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's top diplomat traveled to Moscow on Sunday for a visit with Russian officials, his office said, amid talks to hammer out plans for Mexico to bottle Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine domestically after delays in shipments.

The government is aiming to quicken its pace of vaccinations, with just more than 4% of its population of 126 million people fully inoculated.