Mexico to produce mRNA vaccines under new agreement with Moderna

Mexico’s Health Ministry, state-owned aesculapian institution Birmex, Mexican pharmaceutical institution Liomont and U.S. pharmaceutical steadfast Moderna person signed an statement to collaborate connected vaccine accumulation successful Mexico and related technological research.

President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the pact successful a video that was filmed astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City and posted to societal media connected Monday night.

“Today is simply a precise important time for our country,” she said earlier announcing that “we are signing” an statement with Moderna, Liomont and Birmex, a state-owned institution whose afloat sanction is Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de México (Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico.)

“We’re signing an statement for the accumulation of vaccines present successful Mexico. It’s not conscionable the accumulation of vaccines for COVID-19, but besides different kinds of vaccines,” said Sheinbaum, who noted that Moderna is “one of the planetary companies” that makes mRNA vaccines, which are present acceptable to beryllium produced successful Mexico.

“And possibly the astir important happening is that determination volition beryllium associated technological probe development,” she said.

Sheinbaum said that “Mexican researchers successful biomedicine and different areas” volition enactment successful the associated probe “in bid to beryllium capable to make different vaccines that are of involvement to america successful our country.”

“For example, the dengue vaccine, oregon adjacent a vaccine against cancer,” she said.

“All this probe volition beryllium carried retired successful our state with the objective, arsenic I promised, … [of Mexico] truly becoming a technological powerhouse successful assorted areas of knowledge,” Sheinbaum said.

En Palacio Nacional, firmamos el acuerdo entre la Secretaría de Salud, Birmex, Liomont y Moderna para producción de vacunas ARN mensajero. Esto ayudará a promover la investigación y el desarrollo de nuevas vacunas en nuestro país. pic.twitter.com/4uVt8JDKHj

— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) February 10, 2026

The president was accompanied by representatives from Birmex, Liomont and Moderna, and Health Minister David Kershenobich, arsenic she made the announcement.

Moderna CEO: ‘We are arrogant to enactment Mexico’

Moderna issued a connection connected Tuesday announcing it had signed “a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a semipermanent strategical agreement” with the Mexican Government, Birmex, and Liomont “to heighten Mexico’s wellness sovereignty and mRNA manufacturing resilience.”

Moderna said that “the five-year statement volition see the proviso of Moderna’s respiratory vaccine portfolio, arsenic good arsenic exertion transportation to Liomont, a Mexican pharmaceutical institution with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, to nutrient mRNA-1273, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, and found a reliable in-country proviso of respiratory vaccines.”

“In alignment with ‘Plan Mexico,’ a Mexican authorities inaugural to summation concern and physique section accumulation capacity, Moderna and the Mexican Government volition besides collaborate connected section objective probe and improvement programs based connected Mexico’s wellness priorities and enactment to fortify its pandemic preparedness framework,” the Massachusetts-based institution said.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the institution is “proud to enactment Mexico successful its ngo to fortify nationalist wellness security.”

“Through this agreement, we volition beryllium capable to supply the Mexican radical with entree to our respiratory vaccines and captious pandemic effect capacity,” helium said.

“This collaboration besides reflects the increasing request for these vaccines successful Mexico, and we are excited astir the accidental to enactment nationalist wellness needs portion driving income maturation done geographic diversification,” Bancel said.

Mexico News Daily