SAN LUIS RÍO COLORADO. Although in Mexico the registry has been opened for older adults who wish to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, in San Luis Río Colorado, being a border city, several are the local residents who have chosen to go to the United States to apply the dose that endows them with antibodies.
However, the opportunity to go to the United States to get vaccinated (so far) is only for those born in that nation or who have permission to live there, regardless of whether they are actually residents of the Mexican side of the border.
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That is precisely the case of Mrs. Josefina Ibarra, 78 years old, who for a long time “arranged papers” for which she has dual nationality, although she lives in San Luis Río Colorado, which allows her to cross into the neighboring country , although the border is closed to non-essential issues.
“To me, since mid-January a sister who lives there told me that we could get vaccinated now, but the truth was I wasn’t sure, but now that I saw that the vaccine could take longer in Mexico, I decided to get it there,” he said, adding which was just last week when he received the first of two doses against the new coronavirus.
Geographically located between the border with Arizona, in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, there are many local residents who are born in the United States or at least with permission to live and work legally on that side, so they could choose to be vaccinated in said country, even before what the national vaccination scheme in Mexico indicates.
This is due to the fact that for weeks in the United States there has been greater promotion for the application of the vaccine, not only to health personnel, but also to the most advanced age ranges.
