Mexico’s doctors protest as vaccines denied to frontline health workers

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Ana Sofia is radiologist at a state-run hospital in the Mexican city of Monterrey, not far from the Texas border. Her work often brings her into close contact with patients, but says she was denied a coronavirus vaccination as her superiors did not consider her to be a frontline worker.

In despair, she attended a rural vaccination event for the elderly and asked for a leftover dose of the Sinovac jab - but she was again rebuffed, this time by political operatives who told her: Wait your turn."