Binational leaders plan to vaccinate tens of thousands of Jurez children against COVID-19
El Paso County is taking on a herculean effort to help vaccinate Juárez youth.
Leaders on both sides of the border hope to replicate a successful cross-border effort to vaccinate Juárez factory workers — only this time benefiting children ages 12 to 17.
"It's humanitarian," El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said during a phone interview Friday. "We're one and the same, and I think the quicker we find out that everything we do in unity, and internationally, in the binational approach is going to help us tremendously."
Samaniego has met several times recently with Juárez Mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar and Mexican Consul in El Paso Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon, and negotiations are ongoing.
Under the current proposal, El Paso County would set up a vaccine clinic at the Tornillo-Guadalupe port of entry, on the eastern outskirts El Paso and Juárez.
Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2021/11/22/binational-effort-would-vaccinate-juarez-youths-against-covid-19/8667259002/
