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Mexico working to develop own Covid-19 vaccine by year's end

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Mexico City, Mar 9 (EFE) .- Mexico not only has multiple agreements in place with international pharmaceutical companies but also is working on its own Covid-19 vaccine projects, a task being carried out by several different universities.(CAMERA: Juan Manuel Ramirez)Statements in Spanish fromEdda Sciutto, research coordinator of the IIBm of the UNAM:"Development is going more slowly because we had to acquire a lot of materials, we had materials in the lab, but we had to wait for the supply we needed before starting our research. However, we believe that, with the necessary equipment, we should have a national vaccine by October this year."

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