Mexican health authorities said Friday that 14 of the country’s roughly 2,600 townships have refused to allow vaccination teams to administer anti-coronavirus doses there.
Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said the townships were concentrated largely in the heavily Indigenous southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
He did not give specific reasons why those communities did not want to be vaccinated, citing only “cultural and perhaps religious beliefs.”
López-Gatell said the decision to refuse vaccines had been made by town councils, adding “we respect that decision.” He . . .
