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Mexico's government on Monday urged pharmaceutical companies to honor obligations to deliver COVID-19 vaccines on time, as reported in the Financial Post.
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"We reserved ahead of time, we made agreements, what we want now is for the agreements to be honored," said President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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Lopez Obrador acknowledged that companies were experiencing heavy demand for the vaccines, but said it was important that the accords reached were respected "on time."
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Mexico has signed purchase agreements for vaccines with several companies, including from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and CanSino Biologics.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Martha Delgado noted that an executive order signed last week by President Donald Trump to prioritize US citizens in distribution of US-made vaccines might delay delivery of subsequent vaccine doses arriving from the US.
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