Justice of Mexico orders to vaccinate against the coronavirus to minors between 12 and 17 years old

A federal court of Mexico ordered the Ministry of Health to vaccinate against coronavirus covid-19 to minors between 12 and 17 years of age, a ruling that is analyzed by the government, authorities reported Tuesday.

When resolving an individual appeal for the vaccine to be applied to a minor, the court determined that the government must modify its national vaccination policy so that people between 12 and 17 years of age are immunized in a generalized way.

“We will carefully analyze the case”, Said Tuesday the Undersecretary of Health Hugo López Gatell when questioned about this decision during the presidential conference.

The government can disagree with this court ruling.

The Secretary of Health announced at the end of September that the Pfizer-BioNTech formula will be applied to minors but only if they have diseases that may complicate an eventual contagion of covid-19.

So far, the official said, there have been some 23,000 requests to vaccinate minors with different medical conditions. It is estimated that 1.5 million meet this condition.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the only one that has been approved for use in people 12 to 17 years of age.

Several minors have been vaccinated in different states of Mexico as a result of legal proceedings initiated by their parents.

One of the main arguments in these judicial appeals is the need for minors to be vaccinated in order to return to face-to-face classes, which have begun to resume in the country.

In Mexico, with 126 million inhabitants, as of Monday some 66.9 million people had been vaccinated, of them 48.8 million with two doses, according to Health figures.

The country adds 282,227 deaths and 3.7 million infections of covid-19.

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