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Mass Vaccination Of Mexican Teachers To Start Soon

Mexico is set to start vaccinating several million education workers.

Starting April 20 and stretching through the end of May, the country hopes to inoculate more than 3 million education employees across Mexico, according to Hugo López-Gatell, a top coronavirus response official.

Teacher vaccinations in Sonora won’t start until the third round, which is expected to last a week starting May 5.

Vaccinations in general have been speeding up in recent days in Mexico, with now several days in a row of more than 500,000 doses administered. Well over 13 million doses have now been given, though the rate remains substantially slower than in the neighboring United States.

Murphy Woodhouse was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2018 to 2023.