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Mexico aims to roll back pandemic-induced constraints on its shared frontier with the United States by accelerating vaccinations of its border population against COVID-19, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday.
Ebrard, Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez and other officials met with U.S. Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas in Mexico City, and the foreign minister stated he had actually set out his government’s plan to speed up vaccinations.
Writing on Twitter, Ebrard said Mayorkas indicated that his top priorities were assisting in trade, tourism and travel.
Le compartí a Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretario de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, el objetivo de acelerar vacunacion en frontera norte para alcanzar la normalidad lo más pronto posible.El Secretario señaló que facilitar comercio, turismo y viajes es su prioridad. Coincidimos. pic.twitter.com/IzBz2upJrc
— Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) June 15, 2021
“We remained in contract,” Ebrard said, noting that vaccinations were being accelerated to get back to regular in the border region “as fast as possible.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Mexico got a consignment of some 1.35 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the United States that will go toward inoculating Mexican border residents aged 18 and above, the government stated.
The goal is to ensure Mexico’s frontier cities have the exact same level of security versus COVID-19 as U.S. cities so there is no longer an argument to maintain constraints, Ebrard said.
Mayorkas also met Mexican Finance Minister Arturo Herrera, and the two accepted work together to update the Mexican customizeds offices, Herrera said on Twitter.
(Writing by Dave Graham; Modifying by Giles Elgood, Steve Orlofsky and Dan Grebler)
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