The following is from a Mexican newspaper

Coronavirus: Mexico clarifies policy, to vaccinate all foreign nationals

• FOREIGNERS: Mexican health officials clarified Tuesday that foreign nationals present in Mexico will have access to the coronavirus vaccine, after reports on social media of some vaccination sites in Mexico City denying service to persons based on nationality.

• CONFUSION: “We want to be very clear: the national vaccination plan includes vaccinating everyone who is in Mexican territory, regardless of their nationality”, Ruy López Ridaura, head of Mexico’s national center for disease control, adding that there was some initial confusion.

• NUMBERS: Mexican officials reported 40,684 vaccine doses applied on Tuesday, bringing the total number of doses administered in Mexico to 1 million 801,156. The total number of doses that Mexico has received is 5,039,625. Mexican statistics do not provide a breakdown by nationality.

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So Rosalie and I discussed it and thought about it and we decided to get the ‘The Jab.’

We had heard all sorts of stories from people about what time of day they went for the shortest wait. Times ranged from one and a half to seven hours. We first thought it would be best to go in the morning. After a while, I realized that to do that would mean standing in the morning sun so we went in the afternoon. The line up on that side of the street at that time of the day was nicely in the shade.

I also wanted to wait a little longer and perhaps go the following week. I thought that many folks would want to get it as soon as possible and the initial rush would be greater. But to wait too long runs the risk of them running out. I needn’t have worried though as we just found out that millions of doses are available across the country

The line for registration took about one and a half hours. It wasn’t too bad as the staff had placed chairs all along the sidewalk.

We got to the registration table and presented our temporal cards. There were four young ladies taking the registrations and everything was done by hand. Those poor ladies must have had writers cramp by the end of the day because they had to deal with hundreds of people. There was not a computer in sight.

The next line looked as though there were only about sixty people in it so we should be out of here soon. However around the corner were at least fifty more. Again we were in the shade.

The line progressed in fits and starts as they were taking blocks of about forty people at a time. The hold up was because after the vaccination folks had to wait a while to see if there were any ill effects.

We had been given a sheet of paper with our information and a number on it. Mine was 550 and Rosalie’s was 551. While in the line a couple came along and stood near to us. after a while one of the administrators came out and told the couple to go further back back in the line as their numbers were 575 and 576.

About 10 minutes later they came forward again but this time all the Mexicans around us started giving them a hard time. A young lady was there with her grandfather, who was just behind us, and joined in as she didn’t want him to lose his place. And so, they had to retreat again. In the end, it didn’t matter as they ended up in our group anyway.

Once inside we sat down and were immediately given our shots. Then we’re told to go and sit outside under a huge tent to wait for any allergic reactions and to wait while they did more paperwork for our followup shot.

Back at the car, I noted that we had been away exactly 3 hours and forty-five minutes; about average from what we’ve heard.

All in all, it wasn’t too bad of an experience. They used the AstraZeneca vaccine so we won’t be speaking Russian after all.