Mexico is working closely with several countries to ensure timely access to COVID-19 vaccines
Last week, Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced his country had developed the world's first COVID-19 vaccine
The AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine against COVID-19 has shown promising results in early trials
Russia became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens
Mexico is working with 15 companies to have timely access to the vaccine against the new coronavirus
Brazil has recorded more than 80,000 confirmed deaths and 2 million cases of coronavirus—second in the world behind the United States
Their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot
The WHO chief said there are around seven or eight “top” candidates for a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus and work on them is being accelerated
Some countries announced money for their own national research efforts combined with those they would offer to international organizations