Mexico became the third country in the world in terms of coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday, reaching the 46,000 death mark, according to a report established by AFP on the official database. Mexico is thus one unit ahead of the United Kingdom, which had 45,999 dead on Thursday. The first two countries most heavily affected by Covid-19 remain the United States, with 151,496 dead, and Brazil, with 90,134 dead, according to this report.
However, mortality from the coronavirus reported to the total population remains higher in the United Kingdom than in Mexico, with 677.59 deaths per million inhabitants in the United Kingdom compared to 351.82 per million in Mexico. In the past 24 hours, Mexico has recorded 639 new deaths from the coronavirus, and the number of confirmed cases of contamination reached 416,179 on Thursday, increasing by 7,730 from Wednesday, according to authorities.
With Sanofi
In addition, Mexico will participate in the final phase of testing for a vaccine against covid-19 that the French laboratory Sanofi is developing, announced Thursday the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard. “This is the first phase 3 protocol to be performed in Mexico, at no cost to our country,” said Marcelo Ebrard. Phase 3 of the development of a vaccine is when its efficacy is measured on a large scale after a first step in which its safety is evaluated and a second step in which its efficacy is explored in smaller groups.
The minister explained that Mexicans "are part" of a group of 35,000 volunteers from around the world who will test the vaccine, without specifying which vaccine it is. The laboratory is working on a project with its British counterpart GSK. Clinical trials are scheduled for September and could be available in the first half of 2021. Sanofi is also working with US biotech company Translate Bio to develop another vaccine whose clinical trials are expected to start at the end of the year and whose production could be approved in the second half of 2021 in the event of a positive result.
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