Mexico to step up vaccinations along US border ahead of reopening

US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is in Mexico to discuss immigration and border security.

Mexico aims to gradually lift pandemic-related restrictions along its shared border with the United States as it progresses in vaccinating the local population against COVID-19, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday. Ebrard said the reopening of the border will be discussed with US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who arrived in Mexico late on Monday. “Mexico is going to make an extraordinary vaccination effort in order for our cities to have similar standards to those of the United States in terms of vaccination,” Ebrard said during a regular news conference.