JAKARTA - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is following in the footsteps of the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, who wants to be a test rabbit for a vaccine made in Russia. This desire arose in line with increasing confidence in the Russian vaccine, which is believed to break the chain of spreading COVID-19.
"I will be the first to be vaccinated," said Lopez Obrador. Another reason why he wants to do this is because of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Mexico.
So far Mexico has confirmed 525,733 cases of COVID-19 transmission while 57,023 people have died. To break the chain of cases, the country needs at least 200 million doses of vaccine.
Despite expecting a vaccine from other countries, Mexico is still trying to make its own vaccine. The government of this country has collaborated with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Pic to produce mass vaccines.
They plan to accelerate the trial of the third phase vaccine. If it is quickly finished, the vaccine will arrive in April next year.
Meanwhile, the Russian vaccine called Sputnik V, which is claimed to be the first in the world, is in doubt. This vaccine raises doubts because its clinical trials were conducted in less than two months.
Some world scientists also expressed doubts about the Russian vaccine. They consider the vaccine taken from the name of the world's first satellite only concerned with prestige rather than the safety of mankind.
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