Mexico authorizes J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

Mexico's health regulator has granted emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Thursday.

Even so, Lopez-Gatell said there was no immediate plan to acquire the vaccine for Mexico.

"We have a decent supply with the other five vaccines," he said during his regular evening news conference.

Lopez-Gatell estimated that as many as 2 million Mexicans might travel to the United States to get inoculated but stressed that there were no formal assessments.

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