MEXICO CITY (El Universal) — Mexican health authorities say 14 of the country’s roughly 2,600 townships or rural communities have refused to allow vaccination teams to administer anti-coronavirus vaccines there.
Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said Friday the townships were concentrated largely in the heavily indigenous states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Hugo López-Gatell did not give specific reasons why those communities did not want to be vaccinated, citing only “cultural and perhaps religious beliefs.”
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He said the decisions had been made by town councils and said authorities are trying to set up a scheme in which people who wanted vaccines could get them in a neighboring township.
Source: El Heraldo de Chiapas