Moderna gives Mexico 2.7 million shots as deaths top 300,000
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The U.S. company Moderna has donated 2.7 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Mexico as the country's official death toll topped 300,000
MEXICO CITY -- The U.S. company Moderna donated 2.7 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Mexico Saturday as the country’s official death toll topped 300,000.
Mexico passed 300,000 test-confirmed coronavirus deaths this week, but so little testing is done in the country that a government review of death certificates puts to real toll at almost 460,000.
Mexican officials welcomed the arrival of the shipment at the airport in Toluca, just west of Mexico City, and said the vaccines will be used to inoculate teachers.
Teachers in Mexico were second after only health care workers to be vaccinated in the spring.
