Mexico Ships First Locally Made Astra Shots to Latin America

Mexico shipped more than a million AstraZeneca Plc vaccines to Argentina, Belize, Bolivia and Paraguay over the weekend in the first batch of locally-produced shots.

Mexico sent 811,000 shots to Argentina, while Bolivia and Paraguay received 150,000 each and Belize 100,000, the Foreign Ministry tweeted on Saturday.

The shots are the first of the up to 250 million doses that Mexico and Argentina pledged to produce locally for neighbors with the backing of billionaire Carlos Slim’s foundation. The shots had been expected in the first quarter of the year but ran into production and certification delays. The ...